On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 11:32:46 +0900, Patrick Shirkey wrote: > Hartmut Z Noack wrote: > > > >I think about > > wether i buy another IDE-HD and spread the installation on 2 disks to > >get more bandwith > > This is the most sensible option IMO. > > You will always get xruns if you are recording to the same drive as your > OS. Even the same ide cable can cause problems. It's best to have two > disks hda (OS) and hdc (recording). Its not neccesary though - I only got one IDE disk, with a plan to get another later, but I've not had problems so far (recording 8 or 10 tracks in ardour simultaneously). I probably will add one at some point, maybe external firewire, for the ability to move it about. But if you only use a few tracks it doesn't seem to be vital like it used to be. OT: If your using modern SCSI disks it can pay to turn down the disk elevator size with elvtune - otherwise the disks elevtator fights with the kernels and it can effect your throughput quite badly. - Steve
