Favorites/recordings disappearing-reappearing?

[tvmaster2]

For the second time this week, my recordings have disappeared and then reappeared. This is quasi-associated with seeing lots of "no data" in the listings.
Also, my favorites have also vanished.
The first time, I deleted wiz.bin, both my tuners and channel lineups and rebuilt those, after which everything worked fine for three days.
Now, it's happening again.
Also, "physical memory" is reading very high in Task Manager at 67% - 1.84gb on my 4gb Win 7 32 bit system.
That seems high all of a sudden.

Is this a SageTV server problem causing this, or is my two-year-old SSD boot drive likely the cause?

[waynedunham]

I'd run some tests on your HDs to make sure one or more of them aren't on their last legs.
A lot of the symptoms you describe sure sound like a file/data problem.

[Taddeusz]

Originally Posted by waynedunham

I'd run some tests on your HDs to make sure one or more of them aren't on their last legs.
A lot of the symptoms you describe sure sound like a file/data problem.

I'll second this. Check your Windows System log for any hard drive related errors.

[tvmaster2]

Originally Posted by Taddeusz

I'll second this. Check your Windows System log for any hard drive related errors.

thanks - what would the errors appear as if a drive was failing, do you think?

[Taddeusz]

Originally Posted by tvmaster2

thanks - what would the errors appear as if a drive was failing, do you think?

Sometimes a delay write fail. Or the drive is no longer available. I can't remember the exact error messages but something like that.

[nyplayer]

Originally Posted by tvmaster2

thanks - what would the errors appear as if a drive was failing, do you think?

I use HDSentinel has saved my butt many times. I think the trail will test for errors... but not fix them ... but will let you know if you have errors.

http://www.hdsentinel.com/

[tvmaster2]

ok, I just ran chkdsk on every drive in the box, and every one came back with 0 bad sectors. Each time this has happened, the dreaded "no data" has been evident on several channels in both tuners listings.
I'll keep checking - maybe a bad cable or connection

[Boolah]

Did you run chkdsk with the /r option? It may not find bad sectors without it. I second nyplayer's suggestion of using HDSentinel. It can tell you if there's a problem with the cable and/or SATA interface instead of the drive itself.

[tvmaster2]

Originally Posted by nyplayer

I use HDSentinel has saved my butt many times. I think the trail will test for errors... but not fix them ... but will let you know if you have errors.

http://www.hdsentinel.com/

OK, good tip - I've installed the trial version (30 days) to see how the app works. To your knowledge, does the trial version do everything that's needed to check all I would need to check?

[nyplayer]

Originally Posted by tvmaster2

OK, good tip - I've installed the trial version (30 days) to see how the app works. To your knowledge, does the trial version do everything that's needed to check all I would need to check?

I am sure the professional does more to fix errors. As far as the trial checking I am sure it does enough. I prefer the registered version because it emails you etc.. and you can fix errors which chkdsk cannot. You can also check warranty and it will tell you when you should warranty the drive.

[tvmaster2]

Originally Posted by nyplayer

I am sure the professional does more to fix errors. As far as the trial checking I am sure it does enough. I prefer the registered version because it emails you etc.. and you can fix errors which chkdsk cannot. You can also check warranty and it will tell you when you should warranty the drive.

all drives but one passed with 100%. One drive, a recording drive, was met with this:

"here's what it said about one drive: "the drive tried to examine and relocate data sectors 11 times. There are 16 weak sectors found on the disk surface. They may be remapped at any time in the later use of the disk. At this point, warranty replacement of the disk is not yet possible, only if the health drops further (currently rated at 84% - excellent)."

does that sound like enough to cause my favorites to disappear and recordings to be archived?

[Skirge01]

Originally Posted by tvmaster2

all drives but one passed with 100%. One drive, a recording drive, was met with this:

"here's what it said about one drive: "the drive tried to examine and relocate data sectors 11 times. There are 16 weak sectors found on the disk surface. They may be remapped at any time in the later use of the disk. At this point, warranty replacement of the disk is not yet possible, only if the health drops further (currently rated at 84% - excellent)."

does that sound like enough to cause my favorites to disappear and recordings to be archived?

I don't see how a recording drive would cause the loss of favorites. In HDS, also run the short and long tests on the drives. Every once in a while they find issues which are missed by the health checks HDS does. Additionally, in the advanced options, change the health calculation method to the "more strict" option for servers and see if the health drops any further.

With that one drive at 84%, I'd recommend copying everything off of it, getting the pro version of HDS (get v4.20 for free here) and doing a surface regeneration (wipes all data) to see if you can get the health back up to 100%. In my experience with HDS, once a drive drops below 90% and HDS can't fix it, the drive's health tends to plummet.

[tvmaster2]

Originally Posted by Skirge01

I don't see how a recording drive would cause the loss of favorites. In HDS, also run the short and long tests on the drives. Every once in a while they find issues which are missed by the health checks HDS does. Additionally, in the advanced options, change the health calculation method to the "more strict" option for servers and see if the health drops any further.

With that one drive at 84%, I'd recommend copying everything off of it, getting the pro version of HDS (get v4.20 for free here) and doing a surface regeneration (wipes all data) to see if you can get the health back up to 100%. In my experience with HDS, once a drive drops below 90% and HDS can't fix it, the drive's health tends to plummet.

I agree that the recording drive shouldn't cause favorites to disappear - my thought would be the drive which Sage is installed in would be responsible for that