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Installation issues / Abit IP35 Pro Issue or install issue
« on: September 12, 2008, 04:10:28 pm »
So it's been a long couple of nights as I try to get down to the bottom of this one with not a great amount of payoff, so I thought I would solicit the community for some suggestions.

The other night while taking a look at my movies I noticed that some that existed in my personal home were not showing up on my list, even though I was using that user.  I have no idea how long this has been going on for, but there it was.  I decided it would just be quicker to move those files over to the public repository.  Suddenly I have no videos.

Not a problem, I decide I'll restart the server and they should be back.  It wouldn't reload however, got stuck on one of the startup scripts.  I wish I could remember, but something along the lines of serial I think (In relation to SATA drives?)

Anyway, I figured what the heck, let's try a reinstall, I slipped in the DVD and booted off of it.  It found the current install, asked me if I would like to keep the home directory.  I said yes.  Then it stops.  I saw on the screen say "Error: no hard drive found" and then finally "find: ./var not found".  It stops there. 

So now I'm left with nothing.  I tried a couple more times with the same results.  Sometimes it would stop on "Error: no hard drives found' and halt, sometimes it would get to the next stage.

So at this point I'm not sure if I have a hard drive failure (both of them?), motherboard, or something else. 
I updated the BIOS, no change
I plugged each of the drives into an external adapter and hooked them up to ubuntu on my laptop.  They read, everything is still there.  So hard drive failure is out thankfully.
I plugged them back into the server, ran ubuntu off the DVD and checked for drives, nothing there.

So I've got a couple of ideas for when I get back tonight including plugging the external drive into the server and see what happens, but for the moment, though I would like to move things off this drive, I don't have anything large enough to move them too.

So I'm reaching out.  Any other ideas from everyone here.  I didn't see this issue around anywhere.

As stated above, I'm running an Abit IP35 Pro motherboard and a couple of WD 55GB sata drives.

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Feature requests & roadmap / Advanced Lighting Controls
« on: March 14, 2008, 04:55:43 pm »
after working with DDamron this last week I'm very excited to have my new Insteon controlled lights up and running.  I do feel like there is some functionality that could be added though, and that is will the speed the lights dim and the level they return to when the event ends.

For example: It would be nice to have the lights blink before a movie starts (like  real theater) but then dim slowly rather than simply flipping off.  When the movie is over, my eyes are not ready for a full on bright light.  It would be nice to bring the lights up to 50% or just really  brighten slowly rather then quickly flipping on.

Again, just a feature request.

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Users / DVD player retry on error
« on: March 06, 2008, 05:32:31 am »
While playing a DVD the player will sometimes encounter an issue (scratched DVD, bad data or otherwise) and simply quit rather than trying to bypass the bad part of the disk as most retail players might do.  Is there anything I can do about this inside of LinuxMCE, is this a request I need to make of Xine?

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Users / follow log does not work in web admin
« on: March 01, 2008, 11:13:42 pm »
I see a lot of people solving their problems (or identifying them) using follow log files for a device.  So why don't mine work? Anyone else run into this, and hopefully solved it already.

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Log not found: /var/log/pluto/19_Generic_PC_as_MD.log

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Users / videowiz files showing up in video media
« on: February 27, 2008, 04:01:58 pm »
Alright, I made the mistake of running the updatemedia script on the backend to try and resolve some picture issues that I had.  Well now I have a lot of videowiz files sitting in my video menu. How do I remove that directory from the browser?

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