Windows 7 + echo layla 24/96 + sonar 6 pe = pain in the ass

[miroslav]

Oh...and come to think of it, I believe most DAWs have some sort of auto-save (mine does) that will drop a backup copy of your project to a specific location at a desired time interval. Mine is set at 10 minutes, and it only runs that when the DAW is not busy doing some other thing...like it wont run during recording operations...etc.

So really...it's kinda doing basically the same thing a RAID would do.

I haven't looked at Sonar in awhile...does it have an auto-save?

PS
I know you said you are also using the RAID for the transfer speed...though in my case, the SCSI drives worked out fine.

 

[Freudian Slip]

Are you certain you setup RAID correctly in the bios? There is a setting that will give blue screen if you select it incorrectly but I'm struggling to remember what it was. My bios has two places where Raid is mentioned. One is for Intel chipset raid and the other is for software raid but only one of them should be selected. I'll look at it next time I boot.

I have just remembered Windows 7 does not need to use the F6 drivers as they are already built-in!

Intel® Rapid Storage Technology — How to install an operating system onto a RAID volume (F6 install method)

Beemer

Hey Beemer:
I am using the same settings that worked in win7. Picking raid in the bios and then I think you hit ctrl-I to set up the raid volume.
I also tried installing the raid drivers with windows running (intel gives you a .exe installer) and it gives me a message about needing .net framework 4.0 or newer, which I installed only to still receive the same message.
I have been up and down the intel site but I will check out your link and see if there is anything new I have missed.

Thanks
F.S.

 

[Beemer]

Hey Beemer:
I am using the same settings that worked in win7. Picking raid in the bios and then I think you hit ctrl-I to set up the raid volume.
I also tried installing the raid drivers with windows running (intel gives you a .exe installer) and it gives me a message about needing .net framework 4.0 or newer, which I installed only to still receive the same message.
I have been up and down the intel site but I will check out your link and see if there is anything new I have missed.

Thanks
F.S.

The answer is to make another slipsteamed XP with the correct F6 extracted driver. Note that there is a 32bit and 64bit XP driver.

Here is another better link to slipstreaming:

Beginners Guide: Slipstreaming a WindowsXP Install CD with Service Pack 2 - PCSTATS.com

also see:

http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/imsm/sb/CS-029958.htm

Lastly I just realised that I advised that you download SP2. This should have been SP3 which contains all previous SP

regards,

Beemer

 

[Freudian Slip]

The answer is to make another slipsteamed XP with the correct F6 extracted driver. Note that there is a 32bit and 64bit XP driver.

Here is another better link to slipstreaming:

Beginners Guide: Slipstreaming a WindowsXP Install CD with Service Pack 2 - PCSTATS.com

also see:

Intel® Rapid Storage Technology (Intel® RST) — No floppy drive for F6 install of RAID driver on Windows XP*

Lastly I just realised that I advised that you download SP2. This should have been SP3 which contains all previous SP

regards,

Beemer

Hey Beemer. I am sure I had the right drivers. I think the real solution (if I wanted to reload) would be to go and buy a floppy drive for $3.00 and use the disk that came with my MB
The intel drives from the site come as a to two part package, an installer.exe and a zipped driver package. The driver package varies depending your system 32 or 64 bit. It seemed like I slipstreamed them correctly but, there was some question as to how to package the drivers & exe for slipstreaming. EG: leave the drivers zipped, unzip them, include the .exe?

Anyway it's all up and running now. Good old wdm drivers. I can drag, copy, add or remove effects while playing back with NO hiccups. I can change a looping region while playing with out freezing, etc. I did a test of a drum recording with about 15 tracks playing back I recorded 9 drum tracks at 24 bit and let it loop 4 times.
I am not as happy with the software Raid0 as I had hoped I would be but it's not bad. With all those tracks playing back with effects (at least 50 tracks) I was hitting around 50% on my hard drive meter. You get a bit of a flare on startup but it calms down after that.
I have not tweaked anything yet either so I have to make sure DMA is on and that indexing is off. We will see what that gets me.
The CPU is sitting very pretty with a fair number of effects running so it does not look like much power is going to running the raid software.
I am going to find a had drive testing program and see if the (software) raid gets me the almost double speed I was hoping for. If the meters are right I would say that it's not that much of an improvement but, I don't know how sonar would know my exact max speed. I don't recall it running a hd test...?

Got to run guys. Thanks for he help. I will let you know what I find out. For now I am happy and happy to say SCREW windows 7. If it aint broke don't fix it. What a waste of time!
I will however me loading win7 on our laptop as it does kick vista's ass.

F.S.

P.S. Ya I did SP3. That went smooth as silk using nLite.