On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 08:57 -0500, Paul Davis wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 4:59 AM, David Griffiths <d...@pawfal.org> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I don't know if this is a known issue or something fixed in recent > > kernels, but I recently found a fix for a problem I was having with my > > harddisk spinning down in live performances, and then loading samples > > from disk: > > http://www.pawfal.org/dave/blog/2010/11/jackd-performances-and-harddisks/ > > lets not forget the other issue with hard drives: massively reduced > performance caused by exposure to excessively loud audio. this is well > documented. if you play live (or even in a studio) make sure that the > disk drive(s) are well isolated from extremely loud sounds. the > read/write failure rate goes up dramatically and the effective > streaming rate of the driver suffers. it can be enough to just put the > disk into a drawer.
I'd not noticed this. It makes sense though. I was once cheerfully told about very loud bassy sounds causing disk heads to hit platters when I was just about to start doing visuals at a squat party with an outsized sound system playing dubstep. That was amusing. cheers, dave _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
