firewire drive weirdness

[adam_w1]

Here's an annoying one. You're in a session, then PT says "can't find the drive" (a firewire drive) or something similar, then starts writing audio to another drive, in my case, one on my scsi chain. You have to restart to get the scsi drive back, then copy the audio to the correct drive & folder to remain organized.

This actually escalated 2 days ago to PT doing this, then reloading the session getting the message "PT can't use the drive to play from, do you want to copy files to a drive that can be used". Any ideas, rocket scientists ?

[Jake Schaefer]

A couple basics...

Check your workspace browser to make sure the drive hasn't been switched to "Transfer" only. This could cause the behavior you describe. I have seen cases where a drive drops out (for other reasons) then once remounted it gets set to "Transfer".

This could also be indicative of other problems with that drive. Make sure you've initialized it using the correct utility. Disk Utility (assuming you're using Mac OSX) with "journaling" off. Also make sure you have sufficiant space available on the drive.

-Jake

[slangification]

What version of OSX?

http://duc.digidesign.com/showflat.p...fpart=1#678818

[adam_w1]

Aha ! Thanks guys - it had switched to T after falling off the chain, plus I was on 10.2.3, which is kind of skipped in the compato docs.

cheers, Adam