Audio Recording Time Question.

I've set the Audio recording time to 20 minutes and then recorded a stereo audio track (Guitar FX) simultaneously with three MIDI input channels. We stopped after about 15 minutes of recording only to find the audio had been truncated after just 7 minutes! The 'de-mixed by channel' MIDI tracks were complete though. This happened every time we did a take and there was no warning audio recording had stopped!
I'm confused. Do you have to divide by two and minus some from the Recording Time setting just because you record in stereo? Or do I have a vital page missing from my manual?
I'm using Logic 7.2.1.

Make sure that your Projects End position is longer than 201(top right in the Arrange,drag the end position),but normally that won't be the case as Logic auto adjust it when you finish your recording.
try to see if this is it
You can also type in the bar number,to where you want your project to end in the transport bar(cmd+7),under Bpm,double click.

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1. If someone could recomend me an external hard
drive that is abosolutly amazing for audio recording
and such around $150. I would ONLY be using the
drive to save my audio files. Definitaly needs to be
firewire also.
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2. Next question is. I've heard of people booting
from their external hard drives which has nothing but
there OS and there audio recording application. That
way when they boot it up they don't have processes
running "Behind the scenes" and taking up some
processor power. Is this true? If so, how would you
going about doing this and what would I need?
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3. If anybody else that is reading this is like me
and does alot of audio editing on their iMac G5
computer if you could give me some tips in optimizing
the performance of the computer in order to get the
most out of it.
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work currently. I use a gateway with Cubase, and its
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end.
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