[LAU] Ardour Error: Hard disk too slow

[Fons Adriaensen]

On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 06:18:03PM -0400, Paul Davis wrote:

> On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 22:14 +0200, Matthias Schönborn wrote:
>
> > Are there any people here who are recording to systemdisks with no problems?

My laptop has only one disk, but I'm using a dedicated audio file partition.
Never had any problems of this sort.

> ...  the systemdisk was
> incapable of recording even 6 tracks at once without this error; the
> other disk could do 64 without breaking much of sweat. the difference? i
> don't know, but if i had to point a finger i'd point it at the OS
> install fragmenting the disk allocation in ways that made it impossible
> for the filesystem to allocate new, large, contiguous blocks in an
> efficient way. this is just a guess. i really don't know the reason.

Did you have a separate partition for the audio files ?

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FA

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