Playback and Record Volume messages - read this!

[righton041]

Try trashing the Digidesign Databases on the offending drive. Worked for me.

[Jenk2k]

I had this exact same problem when taking my sessions from windows machine to a mac machine and I about came unglued. The drive works wonderfully and can be browsed by any machine I hook it up to, but when it comes to running a session on it, Pro tools on the MAC G4 won't do it. I do notice that you cannot change the status of the drive from read-only to record. The options are grayed out. I've tried all of the above including trashing Digi preferences with no solution. It is a properly formatted NTFS Drive. Any other suggestions?

[GWW]

Did this issue ever get resolved?? I am having the same problem getting this:
"cannot be designated as an Audio record volume because it is not a valid audio volume" pro tools LE 7.

I bought a new hard drive so I could run Tiger instead of Leopard. But now it still won't record on the drive. It will only keep it as a Transfer. Did this issue ever get figured out? My drive is a SATA 300. I am running on a MacPro.

[GWW]

Did you ever resolve this? I am having the same problem:
"cannot be designated as an Audio record volume because it is not a valid audio volume"
I would love any feedback you may have. thankyou

[DigiTechSupt]

Did you ever resolve this? I am having the same problem:
"cannot be designated as an Audio record volume because it is not a valid audio volume"
I would love any feedback you may have. thankyou

You need Pro Tools LE 7.1.1 or higher for compatibility with an Intel Mac.

[penagihkopi]

Hi Digi,

I have a Power Mac G5, MAC OS 10.4.11 (Tiger) RAID set 7 (2 HDDs). I just got my MBox 2 Mini Studio Bundle and have come across two problems.

1. Pro Tools does not support RAID technology - I understand that. But how do I remove RAID? Also, I've read that removing RAID will cause me to lose all data on my Hard Drive. What are my options? Should I get an external HDD? Which ones would be the most compatible? Also, does a CD-R or DVD-R work to be an audio record volume?

2. Since i clean uninstalled Pro Tools LE and installed it again (as I was trying to figure out what was wrong in issue #1), now my speakers (M-Audio BX5A) have no sound regardless of what I am trying to play. I double checked the Mbox 2 Mini set up and my system preference is all in order according to the Guide but still there's no sound when I try to play music on iTunes or anything.

PLEASE HELP!!!

THANKS!

[MK25toLife]

You need Pro Tools LE 7.1.1 or higher for compatibility with an Intel Mac.

I am running Pro Tools M-Powered 7.0 on an Intel Mac, you're telling me this won't work? I am getting the same error message as everyone else. Please help!

[MK25toLife]

You need Pro Tools LE 7.1.1 or higher for compatibility with an Intel Mac.

I am running Pro Tools M-Powered 7.0 on an Intel Mac, you're telling me this won't work? I am getting the same error message as everyone else. Please help!

[DigiTechSupt]

I am running Pro Tools M-Powered 7.0 on an Intel Mac, you're telling me this won't work? I am getting the same error message as everyone else. Please help!

I'm not sure how to possibly make it any more clear. You need 7.1.1 or higher for this to work on an Intel based Mac. You should do a clean uninstall of 7.0, then download and install 7.1.1 from our website.

[oddsine]

Hi folks,

So, the answer is that the pro tools working only with basic drives not dynamic.
It means that you should convert your dynamic Hard Drive to Basic.
How to do it?

1. Go to Start\Control Panel\Administrative Tools\Computer Management.
2. In the Computer Management window click on Disk Management.
3. Check the drives 0.1.2 etc. where its says Basic or Dynamic.
4. Back up all volumes on the disk you want to convert from dynamic to
basic.
5. Right-click each volume on the dynamic disk you want to convert to a
basic disk, and then click Delete Volume for each volume on the disk.
6. When all volumes on the disk have been deleted, right-click the disk, and
then click Convert To Basic Disk.
7. The disk must not have any volumes nor contain any data before you can
change it back to a basic disk. If you want to keep your data, back it up
or move it to another volume before you convert the disk to a basic disk.
8. Once you change a dynamic disk back to a basic disk, you can create only
partitions and logical drives on that disk.

From now on your huge brand new HD will work with Pro Tools!

Good luck!!!