[ardour-dev] Multi-audio-disk setup - let's make it work

[Mark Knecht]

Dave,
   Interesting. My current ardour.rc file do not have this line in it.

   Possibly I should blow away my current .aroud directory and let
Ardour create a new one?

Mark

On 4/13/05, David Mulcahy <eseol at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> Many moons ago ardour had the following in its ardour.rc file
> 
>    <Option name="session-path" value="/tape1:/tape2"/>
> 
> I think this has something to do with it - but i must admit I have tried and
> failed miserably many times
> 
> Hope someone can shed some light onto it.
> 
> Dave
> 
> On Wednesday 13 April 2005 23:42, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > Hello,
> >    This is probably for Paul but help is certainly welcomed from
> > anyone who can lend a hand. In a message a week or so ago I asked
> > about setting up multiple audio drives in parallel. As I understood it
> > I was to place three paths in the Session Path shown in the Options
> > Editor as such:
> >
> > /home/mark/Audio/audio1/Ardour:
> > /home/mark/Audio/audio2/Ardour:/home/mark/Audio/audio3/Ardour
> >
> > (No line break in reality - probably breaks in this message.)
> >
> > audio1, 2 & 3 are separate 1394 drives that are mounted under my home
> > directory. The are all mounted and are read-write.
> >
> > #80GB ADS 1394 drive
> > LABEL=audio1            /home/mark/Audio/audio1         ext3
> > rw,noauto,user 0 0
> >
> > #160GB ADS 1394 drive
> > LABEL=audio2            /home/mark/Audio/audio2         ext3
> > rw,noauto,user 0 0
> >
> > #Icebox 1394 drive
> > LABEL=audio3            /home/mark/Audio/audio3         ext3
> > rw,noauto,user 0 0
> >
> > All drives have data on them already and the Ardour directory exists
> > on all of them. However when I try to create a session the only
> > session directory created is on audio1 and all audio data is being
> > written to audio1 only.
> >
> >    What am I doing wrong?
> >
> >    I've tried using the path:path:path when I create the session, and
> > I've also tried editing the session RAID path in the Options Editor
> > dialog after the session is created. Neither has worked for me so far.
> >
> >    Probably I'm just misunderstanding where to put this. Help me work it
> > out.
> >
> > Ardour 0.9beta28 - ardour/gtk-0.581.3 & libardour-0.881.2
> >
> >    I'm happy to upgrade if there is a reason to. I've just been
> > holding off a bit.
> >
> > Thanks much,
> > Mark
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