Yup, but you can get decent recording on linux even with just one drive if you have the right combo of hardware. I was using an Audiophile card for recording, but had some pci conflicts that caused random pops in recording, but when I switched to the quattro on usb I'm now getting clean recordings. I'll have to give 1394 a try under linux, I've got a firewire card, but have only used it for digitizing video. http://www.brianredfern.org On 18 Mar 2003, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 18:48, Scott Thomason wrote: > > On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 17:10:51 -0500 > > Chris <grooveman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > I am looking into building a new machine, and I want to do some > > > home-studio recording with it. I was hoping that some of you could > > > lend some of your expert advice. > > > > > > It sounds like SCSI is pretty-much a must in these situations, true? > > > > So in other words, nobody, myself included, thinks SCSI is necessary for this type of workstation nowadays. > > ---scott > > I don't. I'm completely 1394 based in both Windows and Linux for my > audio drives. It's way cheaper than SCSI, it more quiet than EIDE (in a > case and located in the closet at the end of a cable like SCSI), I Can > add more storage in a minute like SCSI, and it puts the drive power > supply outside the PC thus reducing load on the main box. > > I certainly think EIDE drives are basically fast enough today for > smaller systems, and with 1394 drive kits, you can take an EIDE drive > and make it 1394 in a matter of minutes should you ever want to. > > 1394 is the lowest raw-throughput performance of all 3, but overall I > find it works very well for me. (FYI - I have not done enough Linux > based recording to tell people to ONLY go this way, but I Can say that > about 1394 under Windows.) > > Mark > > >
