Stephan Sickert wrote: >>What is the behaviour of VDR if a recording is starting and the HDD is >>not running? Will VDR send a startsignal to the harddisk early enough? > > > With my Samsung SV1204H the startup time is short enough to record without any problem. > > I use a readonly compact flash filesystem with RAM disk and the harddisk normally off, so hd startup doesn't occur that often. > > Stephan cRecorder::cRecorder(...) { // Make sure the disk is up and running: SpinUpDisk(FileName); ... } See tools.c for the implementation of SpinUpDisk(). Klaus