[linux-audio-user] Ardour, Jack, and 2.6 kernels + XRuns with the Audiophile 24/96 M-Audio

[Steve Harris]

On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 11:00:47 -0400, Joel White wrote:
> So, am I completely hosed with my Adaptec SCSI drive setup?  Anybody 
> have any insight into these Adaptec controllers?  I've fussed with the 
> setpci latency_timer settings (from Jan Depner's "Installing and 
> configuring ALSA, JACK, & Ardour..." web site), but still see long 
> xruns.  Trying an IDE drive is not that simple, as I don't have any 
> drive slots left in the box (I've got 4 SCSI drives setup as a RAID).  
> So, I'd like to exhaust all possibilities before trying new drive 
> configurations.

You could beg/borrow/steal a Firewire, USB2 or SATA external drive and try
that. You wouldnt have to destroy anyones data, just record some junk to
it while you ran a latency test.

- Steve