Thomas Janssen wrote: > 2010/1/12 John Pilkington <J.Pilk at tesco.net>: >> Hi: I know f10 has gone EOL but I'm still running it until I 'finish' >> my parallel install of f12. The f10 system has the kde 4.3.3 packages >> from f10 updates, and I don't think I saw this problem before they were >> installed - but I also recently added a 1TB sdb, upgraded to mythtv 0.22 >> and began regular use of ProjectX under java (from Sun). >> >> Usually things work as expected, but there is a problem. The paralysis >> usually occurs when both sda and sdb are being accessed, sometimes quite >> intensively; things progressively stop working as I switch windows, and >> I can't shut down and do a normal reboot because several devices say >> they are busy. The only way out seems to be to switch off. On reboot >> everything has, so far, been ok, but dvb recordings that were in >> progress aren't properly closed. >> >> I've always had Konqueror open, with tabs showing the recordings folders >> on the two drives, when this has happened. Today it was apparently >> precipitated by opening the second tab. I'm wondering if I've hit a >> Konqueror bug, or if I may have a BIOS/sdb mismatch. Any ideas? >> Perhaps I should try Dolphin again. > > Could be that you have enabled Nepomuk in System-Settings and it bites you. > The Redland backend is aweful slow and freezes Konqueror/Dolphin. But > the rest should normally still work. Nepomuk is running but only looking at folders that probably don't change much. I haven't seen it in featuring in atop. > > You could as well try to have your HDDs on different controller > (guessing they are on the same). Yes, thanks for this. It seems that I have one two-channel and one four-channel controller (Intel DG965OT board) but I haven't yet found out which feeds which socket and I don't see any colour coding etc. I've moved the new drive from 1 to 5 and what worked before still seems to work now, so it's time to wait-and-see. John P
