I run all my hard drives from esata, I have two drives...
One contains the system that I am currently using the other has the last system that I used or the system that I am currently testing, this way if things go badly and I need to get work done, I just boot from the other drive. But hey I agree with finishing the job before upgrading.
So far for me the 9.10 realtime kernel is the first one that really worked for me since the 8.04 kernel. It's quite good.
I am getting sick of the amount of work I need to do to get Ubuntu into a working audio workstation though. It's a pity (for me at least) that there doesn't seem to be any kde based audio centric distributions. (historically I would put that down to Arts less than cooperative).
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 9:46 PM, Mac McIlvaine <ussndmac@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 22:48:31 -0800
>From: Iain Duncan <iainduncanlists@xxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: hardware & distro recos for using with Presonus
> Firepod?
>To: linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Hi folks, my machine just died so it's time to shop for a new one,
and might
>as well kick the tires on distros at the same time. Can anyone give
my their
>recommendations (and stay-away-froms) for a microATX factor board/chip
combo
>that will work well for setting up a linux audio workstation to
be used with
>a Presonus Firepod?
>
>Anyone have experiences to share re the Ubuntu Studio 9.10 and theI have successfully had twin Firepods running on Ubuntu 9.04 with
Firepod?
>( or other presonus firewire cards ).
>
the custom rt kernel. I was never able to have non-xrun recording
otherwise.
The only hardware that seems critical is the firewire chipset. The
TI chipset seems to work fine, other not so much.
I don't have an opinion on the cpu or mobo, have used both intel
and amd. (googling "don't use this particular model#" in this application
is always a good idea.)
I have not attempted 9.10 (either vanilla or Ubuntu Studio) I'm in
the middle of a big mastering job and don't have time to fool with
the "oh, well build this and tweak that stuff that always seems to
result when changing things.
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