HD sleep mode causing MVP crash

[drbenjamin]

Hi All

I've had my setup for a few months now, and it's all working smoothly, but there's one minor thing I've noticed that would be nice to address (if possible). I have my storage drive set to spin down after 1 hour of inactivity. What seems to happen is that once the drive is spun down, if I go to an MVP and try to browse the Recordings (I use XRecord), the MVP will pause for a few seconds then crash to the blue screen. When it reboots, everything is fine. I am guessing that the delay caused by the hard drive coming up ( whcih takes 5-10 seconds) is causing the MVP to timeout. Is there any way I can get gbPVR to compensate for this delay?

Thanks!

[martint123]

The same happens to me, but I've never got round to seeing if there is a way of increasing its timeout or if an alternative dongle would solve things.

[sub]

The Hauppauge dongle expects an answer to all requests within about 8 seconds. If the time for the hard drive to wake up causes a request to take longer than this then the MVP will disconnect.

You might have more luck with the mvpmc dongle. I dont think it has this 8 second requirement.