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

[Joe Hartley]

On Tue,  1 Jun 2004 15:42:52 -0700
Malcolm Baldridge <linux-audio at paypc.com> wrote:
> Oddly, I have yet
> to throw a dead Western Digital drive into the Drive Bucket of Doom - but
> that could be because I had a bias against the brand for a long time. 

I think that I've now actively avoided each major manufacturer three times
each now.  It's not so much that the company itself lacks the resources or
desire to do this correctly, but sometimes the design or manufacturing
process just doesn't scale to the big time.

Anyone else remember the stiction problem in the Seagate 105MB drives?
(Don't laugh, that was a lot of space at the time.)  The grease would
cool and congeal around the spindle when the drive was turned off.  When
it was turned on after being off for a while, there was sometimes a hair
less torque than what was required to break the seal and start the platters
spinning.

I'd fix these my hitting the drive enclosure gently with a rubber mallet
just as I was switching the power on.  I loved doing that at work.

> UGH, SATA, at least in this first generation, is a mess.  ...  Do not
> violate the "grounding rules", and don't run SATA cables outside of
> reasonably shielded environments if they have a great deal of radio emissions.

And people used to say that SCSI was voodoo.



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