On 8/21/05, Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 11:51 -0700, Noah Roberts wrote: > > I was using the generic one, but would that affect the USB2 drive? > > How does a standard IDE drive in one of those USB2 enclosures compare > > in throughput to an internal mini-ide at 5200rpm? > > That's probably the problem, the generic IDE driver only supports PIO > mode which can disable interrupts for a long time. You need to use the > IDE driver for your chipset. > > What distro are you using? This should really work OOTB. gentoo I'm upgrading to 2.6.13-r6. I will apply the rt-preempt patch also...and it applied with no hassle... Reading this site: http://tapas.affenbande.org/?page_id=3 Soundcard is the internal SiS soundcard uses the intel8x0 module. jack cmd line: /usr/bin/jackd -R -t1000 -dalsa -dhw:0 -r44100 -p1024 -n2 Using qjackctl to start it. So, I'll try this upgrade, which includes a lot of setting changes to more appropriate values, and then I'll get back with success/failure rate. Thanks for the ideas.