diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY index 6139e864..35be5b3d 100644 --- a/HISTORY +++ b/HISTORY @@ -640,3 +640,5 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History that turns off the video disk when it is not used, and therefore needs to write the EPG file to a ramdisk (or turn off writing it alltogether). See 'vdr --help' for details. +- Making sure the disk is up and running before starting recording (this + is important for systems that turn off the video disk when it is not used). diff --git a/dvbapi.c b/dvbapi.c index 744eaf41..7f728b61 100644 --- a/dvbapi.c +++ b/dvbapi.c @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ * DVD support initially written by Andreas Schultz * based on dvdplayer-0.5 by Matjaz Thaler * - * $Id: dvbapi.c 1.103 2001/08/10 14:54:21 kls Exp $ + * $Id: dvbapi.c 1.104 2001/08/11 10:17:26 kls Exp $ */ //#define DVDDEBUG 1 @@ -3269,6 +3269,10 @@ bool cDvbApi::StartRecord(const char *FileName, int Ca, int Priority) if (!MakeDirs(FileName, true)) return false; + // Make sure the disk is up and running: + + SpinUpDisk(FileName); + // Create recording buffer: recordBuffer = new cRecordBuffer(this, FileName, vPid, aPid1, aPid2, dPid1, dPid2); diff --git a/tools.c b/tools.c index 6b08d65d..bf07ad07 100644 --- a/tools.c +++ b/tools.c @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and * how to reach the author. * - * $Id: tools.c 1.36 2001/08/11 08:52:27 kls Exp $ + * $Id: tools.c 1.37 2001/08/11 11:14:19 kls Exp $ */ #define _GNU_SOURCE @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ #if defined(DEBUG_OSD) #include #endif +#include #include #include @@ -315,6 +316,38 @@ char *ReadLink(const char *FileName) return TargetName ? strdup(TargetName) : NULL; } +bool SpinUpDisk(const char *FileName) +{ + static char *buf = NULL; + for (int n = 0; n < 10; n++) { + delete buf; + if (DirectoryOk(FileName)) + asprintf(&buf, "%s/vdr-%06d", *FileName ? FileName : ".", n); + else + asprintf(&buf, "%s.vdr-%06d", FileName, n); + if (access(buf, F_OK) != 0) { // the file does not exist + timeval tp1, tp2; + gettimeofday(&tp1, NULL); + int f = open(buf, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IROTH); + // O_SYNC doesn't work on all file systems + if (f >= 0) { + close(f); + system("sync"); + remove(buf); + gettimeofday(&tp2, NULL); + double seconds = (((long long)tp2.tv_sec * 1000000 + tp2.tv_usec) - ((long long)tp1.tv_sec * 1000000 + tp1.tv_usec)) / 1000000.0; + if (seconds > 0.5) + dsyslog(LOG_INFO, "SpinUpDisk took %.2f seconds\n", seconds); + return true; + } + else + LOG_ERROR_STR(buf); + } + } + esyslog(LOG_ERR, "ERROR: SpinUpDisk failed"); + return false; +} + // --- cFile ----------------------------------------------------------------- bool cFile::files[FD_SETSIZE] = { false }; diff --git a/tools.h b/tools.h index b4a0cb67..6baaff30 100644 --- a/tools.h +++ b/tools.h @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and * how to reach the author. * - * $Id: tools.h 1.26 2001/05/20 08:29:45 kls Exp $ + * $Id: tools.h 1.27 2001/08/11 09:52:14 kls Exp $ */ #ifndef __TOOLS_H @@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ bool MakeDirs(const char *FileName, bool IsDirectory = false); bool RemoveFileOrDir(const char *FileName, bool FollowSymlinks = false); bool RemoveEmptyDirectories(const char *DirName, bool RemoveThis = false); char *ReadLink(const char *FileName); +bool SpinUpDisk(const char *FileName); class cFile { private: