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External Hard Drive problems with Protools
Hi there,
Has anyone had any issues using G-Tech external firewire drives with Protools? I'm using two external G Drives, one with my sample library and another where I save sessions and all my audio. Recently it's been nothing but trouble. I'm talking spinning beach ball of death often for five minutes at a time. It's literally doubling the time all my recording sessions take as it's spinning for approximately 50% of the time. The activity monitor says Protools is only using 15% of CPU power so I'm assuming it's the g drive. And occasionally, when this happens, the mac will just stop reading the audio drive and I'll get a pop up box telling me I've disconnected the drive prematurely. Really killing me. |
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Re: External Hard Drive problems with Protools
IIRC, G-Drives ship with a DVD that includes advice re troubleshooting. Have you looked at this?
Does the HD mount OK? Have you tried a different FW cable or socket (if you have one)? |
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Re: External Hard Drive problems with Protools
as Phil says u have to try others cables and connections...
BUT also do u have it on a HUB? is it conected alone? Is it happening when u are plugged on energy or on battery? |
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Re: External Hard Drive problems with Protools
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The OS claiming the drive being unmounted could be a faulty cable or controller on either the drive or the logic board. If the drive unmounting happens immediately after a SWOD where the computer is trying to do something with this drive, then I would suspect drive corruption as noted above.
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Jonathan S. Abrams, CEA, CEV, CBNT Apple Certified - Technical Coordinator (v10.5), Support Professional (v10.6 through v10.10) |
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Re: External Hard Drive problems with Protools
Have you applied all the standard systems optimizations? especially including disabling spotlight indexing on all these drives?
Darryl |
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