Re: Que Firewire Drive and Pro Tools LE

duugg2 · Messages: 169 Registration: 06.23.2003

I apologize for posting such a basic question. I found this quote from the Digidesign support site. This answers my original question. We do not support the use of FireWire drives with any of our systems at this time. FireWire does not yet offer the sustained throughput required by Pro Tools and as a result, will cause DAE -9073 "Disk too slow"errors. We do support 24 bit, 24 track playback from either a dedicated internal ATA or approved SCSI hard drive(s) with a supported SCSI accelerator card. Be sure that your drive(s) are formatted with FWB Hard Disk Toolkit version 3.0.2. In addition, it is a good idea to partition any drive larger than 9GB into smaller, 4-6GB partitions

MMJ4mil · Messages: 37 Registration: 05.27.2002

hey Itaber, does your FW drive have the HDST extensions? If so, try turning them off and rebooting. It worked for me and my Buslink FW drive

blitzed310 · Messages: 11,867 Registration: 08.01.2003

Hey Gorilla. I'm not sure if my FW drive has those extensions or not. When I get home, I'll try your suggestion. Thanks for the tip. It would be nice to reduce my HD fan noise when I use a microphone.

Omega8 · Messages: 4 Registration: 01.05.2002

Itaber, I thought that Digidesign DID approve firewire drives as long as they have the following features: 1)at least 7200rpm 2)911 chipset 3)a ATA bus of at least "100" (whatever that means) I use a Lacie FW drive and it works great. At first, I freaked out because it didn't imediately start working with Pro Tools, but I just had to remove all of the Lacie extensions and format it with the Erase Disk option under the Special menu, rather than using the software that came with it, and then it hasn't had any problems since. What brand of drive do you have? Maybe someone else with that same drive could give you a few tips...

InvincibleDarkness · Messages: 133 Registration: 07.19.2001

Que Firewire Drive and Pro Tools LE

x2nervisx · Messages: 2,051 Registration: 09.29.2003

Hello everyone. This is probably a basic question, but I can't get my Pro Tools LE program to run any audio off of my firewire drive. I keep getting a DAE error message. Do I need to configure Pro Tools to look at the firewire drive? Does PT LE even work with firewire? I thought it did. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.