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MythTV File Dump I finally managed to move all the necessary files off of the extra 250GB IDE drive I had lying around. The whole process took a pile of DVDs and CDs (some of the files were ISO files that needed to be burned to 1 CD or DVD). I also had to make a decision to let some of the data go. e.g. The 25 ISOs for an outdated version of Debian GNU/Linux. A few weeks ago I picked up an external IDE enclosure to put the drive in. It took some time to figure out that a simple fsck on the ext3 file system was the answer to the problem of mounting the LVM file system on the drive. I didn't want to run fsck since I thought it might actually corrupt the data (since it was in a different computer). It worked, so I was able to retrieve all my old data. Initially I was going to use the drive as a dumping space for the whole network, so I formatted it with VFAT. Maria's computer runs Windows XP and the FAT (File Allocation Table) file system is well understood by it. The problem is t...

The ATI All-In-Wonder (AIW) 7500 seems to come in a few forms, one including a TV tuner, one with 32MB and one with 64MB. The AIW 7500 we have has 64MB and the TV tuner along with Audio/Video in/out and DVI out. At first I thought these were SVideo in and out, but closer examination shows that the connectors are not SVideo. The original boxed set seems to have come with a special ATI purple external connector cable that allows for component audio and video out (we did see on one site SVideo as well). Here's a link to a Vietnamese overclocking site that has a photo of the connector . The product ID number on our card is 1028390502. We list it here because googling the product ID number didn't turn up any results for us, but beside the serial number is the code AIW 7500 64MB DDR (All-In-Wonder 7500). We googled this card and while it seems people are using it under Linux as video-out, there doesn't appear to be good support for the tuner-portion of the card. Searching the ...