What kind of hard drive is it? I have an 18gb IBM in mine (400 also) and no problems such as you describe, although I did have a similar experience when attempting to record to an external syquest. Have you tried running minimal extensions, is virtual memory off? What app are you recording with? Which OS? > > 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