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

[Mark Knecht]

As I found out when I blew my old one away.

Are you running 0.9beta28 or something newer?

Thanks,
Mark

On 4/13/05, David Mulcahy <eseol at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> No mine doesn't have it in either.  Like I said this was in earlier versions -
> it has now been removed but I guess it might still have something to do with
> it.
> 
> Dave
> 
> On Thursday 14 April 2005 00:07, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > 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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