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Help!! Getting stompels

I have a Philips 30 hr Tivo that I upgraded with a Segate ST380021A. I used MFS Tools 2.0 with swap being set to 127. I check the logs and swap is activated fine. My system temp varies between 36 C to 38 C. I am getting stomples pretty frequently... I can rewind and they are still there...

36 to 38 degrees C doesn't seem that hot but maybe I have some dead air hot spots... Does anyone know where you can get good passive heat sinks for the encoder, decoder, PowerPC, and that other big chip?

any other ideas/info GREATLY appreciated?

Thanks

-Dave

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I would be thinking bad sectors rather than over heating. Pull the drive out and run Seagate's diagnostics on it.

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I would think if you can rewind and it occurs in the same spot that it wasn't the hard-drive but the encoder giving the drive bad data to record. The drive is fine. Checks o.k.

-Dave

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Are you getting error messages in the logs?

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No I don't see any error messages in the log.... ARGH.... I open the box and the chips were cool... of course nothing was recording... but the drive was hot. I added some extra fans in the unit around the drive and directed at the motherboard.

The system is in a entertainment cabnet with an amp... so it gets pretty warm in there. The tivo is at the bottom of the unit, so it is a litttle cooler... The TiVo reports the temp at being 36 to 39C which seems o.k. to me...

Is there a way to increase the speed of the fan (TiVo) a bit without directly connecting it to the 12V power of the hard drives?

-Dave

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I found a Western Digital WD800JB Special edition (8 Meg Cache) for $107 no shipping no tax on www.newegg.com.... So I am going to swap out harddrives as the Segate produces lots of heat, and the WD800JB does not.

It is such a sweet drive... a shame to just put it in the Tivo

-Dave

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