[ardour-users] configuring and second HD for Ardour

[Jan Depner]

On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 14:33, Jimmy wrote:
> I've looked through the archive but haven't found an answer for this.
> I have a PC running Ardour it has 2 IDE HD's 1 has root and home mounted
> on one and I'd like the use the other for the sound files. 
> I don't have any trouble mounting it or anything like that What I need to know 
> is where do I configure Ardour to use this HD for all sound files? is it a 
> simple as putting the session there? I figure there more to it than that.  
> Any help would be appreciated.

    Yes, just open the sessions on that disk.  I set up my Ardour button
to do the following:

'cd /data3/ardour_data;ardour'

that way I'm always sitting on the disk I want to use and in the
directory I want to use for audio whenever I run Ardour.


Jan