[Duo2400] 2400 Audio Interruptus

[Shawn Wolfe]

Could you use a PCMCIA sound card and see if that will help?


On Wednesday, March 19, 2003, at 12:31 PM, RRSounds at aol.com wrote:

>
> In a message dated 03/19/2003 3:51:58, I had originally written:
>
> <<
> My 2400 is a wonderful machine. I upgraded it a while back to 400MHz, 
> 10GB HD and 80MB memory.
> but it is totally useless for recording audio. The hard drive does a 
> recalibration every 60 seconds, which interrupts the audio stream 
> briefly. As you can imagine, this sucks in a profound way.
>
> Any workarounds, or do I need to just not use this baby for audio?
>
> David Reaves
>>>
>
> Having not gotten any response from this very knowledgeable group, I 
> meanwhile have tried a few more things myself.
>
> I have an external (PCMCIA card) hard drive that I hooked up to see if 
> I could isolate the problem to the internal drive. Well, the audio 
> interruption also happens when the audio is playing from an external. 
> And you don't even want to know the performance with a USB external 
> drive!
> So, I ask, nay plead, does anybody know what's up with this brief 
> audio interruption every 60 seconds? Is it endemic to the 2400?
> :-(
>
> David Reaves
> unhappy camper
>
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