[vdr] Re: complicated hardware setup

[Oliver Brandt <oliver_mlisten@gmx.de>]

> > DAU? Can't come up with the meaning of it?
> 
> German: "Dümmst' anzunehmender User" = Parents above an age of 60 ;o)
That deffinately fits. He turned 64 yesterday ;-)
> 
> What do you do if power-supply-unit of client goes up into flames?
> Integrated extinguisher and Nano-bots for repairing? ;o)
Sounds like a good idea. I'll think about it. No, seriously, I just want
to limit the points of possible failures as low as possible. And a
server with a lot of moving parts (harddisks, cpu and power-supply fan)
is just much more likely to fail.
> 
> Learn to think positive!
I always did but technical parts just blow as soon as I get within a
radius of 10m. I don't even have to touch anything.

> I never tried kernel-raid, but is there no way to calculate missing data
> from a crashed HDD by CRC-code (only with one IDE-interface for each
> HDD, of course, as a broken slave or master device will corrupt the
> other one)?

I don't know about the master slave thing. That is deffinately something
I have to check out. I was thinking about using an additional ide
controler and connecting the harddiscs as master. Than it should not be
a problem to recalculate the missing data. For anybody who is doing the
same thing. The friend of mine who is using it has tested it on quite a
few computers and found out that reconstructing the data crashes the
system on multi processor systems.

> At this situation I'd suggest you to
> 
> 1.) do transcoding on the client.
> 
> 2.) use a write-protected boot-HDD and write logs,etc. on another disk.
> 
> 3.) build a additional mini-server for redundancy your father can switch
> on in case main machine crashes (e.g. a PI 150 with 32 MB RAM and one
> low-budget using same IP).

Does not sound like a silent machine, though ;-).

Thanks once again!
	Oliver


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