On Tuesday 01 July 2003 03:32, The Other wrote:
> 06/30/03
>
> Hello All,
>
> In a few days (I hope), I'll have a replacment for the Maxtor
> 30GB drive. I'll be dedicating the entire drive to Mandrake 9.1
> Bamboo.
>
> I plan to use the Bamboo system for music hard drive recording,
> editing, and score printing.
>
> Any suggestions on how I should partition the drive, and in what
> file format system?
You mean what type of filesystem like ext3 or reiser? I don't know :(
_If_ you need low latency you must check if the filesystem type
doesn't introduce extra latency. If you record many tracks the speed
of writing to the hdd can become a bottleneck and I guess the speed
also depends on the filesystem used.
> Before my hard drive crash, I was reading about a special music
> low-latency kernel (anyone know where that's available?), and a
> special file format for hard drive recording (sorry, forgot the
> name of that file format.) Anyone know what file format I'm
> referring to?
I have kernel-multimedia-2.4.21.0.16mdk. It's on the cd's or maybe in
contrib I think. Normally you record to harddisk in .wav format.
I guess multitrack recorders use their own format. This one seems nice:
Name: ecasound
Version: 2.2.1-1mdk
Size: 2379 KB
Source: contrib
Currently installed version: (none)
Summary: Sound processing, multitrack recording, and mixing tools
Description: Ecasound is a software package designed for multitrack
audio processing. It can be used for simple tasks like audio playback,
recording and format conversions, as well as for multitrack effect
processing, mixing, recording and signal recycling. Ecasound supports a
wide range of audio inputs, outputs and effect algorithms. Effects and
audio objects can be combined in various ways, and their parameters can
be controlled by operator objects like oscillators and MIDI-CCs. A
versatile console mode user-interface is included in the package.
There is also ardour. The first official beta tarball was released a
few days ago :) There is an older mandrake rpm for it. Maybe it's best
to wait until a new rpm has been made for Mandrake.
You know there is a Linux Audio Users mailing list?
> The Bamboo suggested partitions last time I installed were /,
> /usr, and a Linux swap file. I was using Journalized something 3
> file format for / and /usr.
>
> What should I consider this time? And how many GBs should be in
> the partitions?
>
> I have 128MB of memory. Does the Linus Swap file really need to
> be bigger the 256MB? (Bamboo suggested 800MB last install.)
>
> Would a 10GB partion for hard disk recording be reasonable? And
> in what file format? (That would still leave me 20GB for the
> remainder of the system.)
>
> Besides / and /usr, are other mount points and partitiona desirable?
>
> Thanks All,
> The Other
Good luck!
-Frans
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