On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 09:55:11PM +0100, Jon Fairbairn wrote: > > This is an error that occurs infrequently (only twice in the > last couple of months of recording an average of an hour or > so per night), but it's very annoying when it does. > > Using tzap -r and cat, cat dies with: > > cat: /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0: Value too large for defined data type > > I first saw this error when using a cvs version of tzap with > built-in file writing abilities, so I thought it must be a > problem with that, and reverted to using release 1.1.0 of the > dvb-apps with cat, but it happened again, so I must just > have been unlucky when trying the newer tzap, and the > problem lies elsewhere. This means a buffer overflow happened, probably because of some scheduling latencies. It is hard to avoid in a non-realtime OS. > Anyhow, I have a Hauppauge Nova-T model 900 (eeprom=90002, > tuner 76) and I'm running kernel 2.6.12-rc3 with the > appropriate patches from bytesex, plus > realtime-preempt-2.6.12-rc3-V0.7.46-02, though the first > time it happened was probably with an earlier kernel. > > Any suggestions? Don't use cat. Maybe "dd if=/dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 conv=noerror" works. You can test by suspending (^Z) and continuing (fg). Johannes
