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cannot record on my external hd when using a lap top, only on the desktop
Hi there
There is a strange thing going on here with my external hard drive I record my audio files in a USB (I believe it is 2.0, but, now, I´m not sure) hard drive wich runs on NTFS Tomorrow I´m going to make a bootleg at a gig and to save time I´ve created all the projects in a desktop. I routed all the projects to the hard drive, while I worked on the desktop and it worked just fine. Today, I connected the hard drive on the lap top I´m using tomorrow and when I launch pro tools and check the disk allocation root media folder it tells me it´s on C: now, instead of E:. When I try to change it, it simply won´t allow me to and says "Lacie is not an audio recording volume". I read on a digi hd requirements page that usb 2.0 cannot be used as a connection for recording audio, dunno why. If that´s so, why on my desktop it works fine and when I sawp to the lap top, this bizarre thing happens? |
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Re: cannot record on my external hd when using a lap top, only on the desktop
Dumb luck perhaps ? ( When it comes to your desktop ) As for the laptop , it's b/c of the way the usb hub inside the cpu is structured .( at least that's what I was told but don't know for sure ) Stick to firewire . I don't know if this helps but on my laptop , it won't read my drive unless thr cpu is powered on first . If you start the drive first ( like you should ) I can only look at the files but get the same error when opening pro tools
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Re: cannot record on my external hd when using a lap top, only on the desktop
Yea, USB is not the way to go for this, something usually winds up going wrong.
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Re: cannot record on my external hd when using a lap top, only on the desktop
I run my Seagate external HDD through USB 2.0 and it works as smooth as silk...
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Re: cannot record on my external hd when using a lap top, only on the desktop
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It's really as simple as that.
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Re: cannot record on my external hd when using a lap top, only on the desktop
Well my system runs fine...*shrug*
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Re: cannot record on my external hd when using a lap top, only on the desktop
Problem solved
The prblem was I hadn´t swapped to R the drive in the worspace menu everything wen´t fine and I did record the bootleg. actually, seven bootlegs... I´ll be posting it on mediafire this week thanks everyone :) |
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Re: cannot record on my external hd when using a lap top, only on the desktop
I doubt you're doing 48-64 track sessions, with all sorts of plug-ins.
I also doubt that it'll continure running fine. Digi doesn't say not to use USB externals just to have something to say. USB externals are nearly always problematic, sooner or later. Firewire=stable, and supported USB=unstable, and unsupported. Pretty simple equation.
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