firewire drives no longer valid audio drives

[chuckbody1]

hi everyone-
so i recently installed a sonnet tempo pci ata adapter
in my "old" AGP G4 so i could run a higher capacity system drive-
everything was peachy until i tried to open sessions on either of my
firewire drives- PTs can't locate the audio files and then
when i locate them, i get "audio1_01 is not on a valid audio drive"-
tried erasing and reformating firewire drives, playback is fine
from the system drive, kinda lost for moves here besides trying to ditch
the ata adapter...
any help is appreciated
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G4 AGP, OS9.2.2, PTLE 5.1.1,

thanks!

[jerry9]

Have a look in your 'Workspace' window. Make sure your fw drives have a 'R' under the 'A' & 'V' column. If it is 'T' then just click on it and change it.

[chuckbody1]

hey jerry9, thanks for posting- i had seen the "workspace" technique
in a couple other threads dealing with PTle 6-7, however in PTle 5, there
is no workspace window and (as far as i know) no way to define drive usage
within the program window- so my FW drives continue to lay dormant
another weirdness with this whole thing, if i go thru the whole "copy audio
to a valid audio drive" thing, i can copy the files to my FW drive where the session
lies, the session opens up and i can get playback, etc... however upon trying
to save the session, i'm asked to recopy the files (i humor PTs and go thru with it)-
when i reopen the same session with my newly triplicated files i am asked to go
thru the same process again-
something is fundamentally wrong with how the program is recognizing these FW drives-
extremely frustrating

[JCBigler]

Have you sacrificed a chicken yet?

In my experience, firewire is pretty much a voodoo art. Sometime it works. Sometimes it doesn't. Soemtime it works if you sneez at it, other times it doesn't work if it rains.

Ditch the firewire and get 15,000rpm fibre-channel drives.