Valid Audio Record Volumes

[Jbdubs]

I recently upgraded to Pro Tools which I bought and downloaded from the site to my Mac OS X 10.5.6. I also have a WD external hard drive with two fire wire ports that Pro Tools won't let me record to, telling me it's not a "valid audio record volume".

I've gone into Workspace and it won't let me switch the external to Audio Record and I've also gone into Disk Utility but it won't let me repair the permissions either. What should I do to fix this problem so I can start recording to my external? Should I just buy a new compatible volume? Is there a list of dependable "valid record volumes"?

Thanks!

[Craig F]

is the WD new?
if yes, did you reformat it HFS+ journaled?
(99% of all per-formatted HD are formatted for a Microsoft OS)

[drenkrom]

It is normal that you can't repair permissions, as they reside on the system disk only. It does indeed sound like the drive just isn't formatted correctly.

If this'll be an audio drive, it's worth it to low-level format the drive ("write zeros to disk" in Apple-speak) to eliminate any bad sectors. Once that's done, if you still can't use it, try transfering a huge amount of data to the drive and see if the operation goes to the end without a hitch. If so, your drive is probably not the issue. If you get a write error, you have a faulty drive. In that case, drive down to the shop and exchange it. WD MyBook drives do work with PT. Trust me, I've got over 30 in active circulation here.

IHTH

[FutureX]

jumping in here as I have a similar problem.

Is it true that ProTools does not support RAID 0 drives? I called tech support and that's what I was told. I also uninstalled and reinstalled PT8.

On my system I have firewire drives that PT does recognize as Record Volumes and 2 RAID 0 drives that it will only allow as Transport volumes. But it will allow those RAID 0 drives to be video record volumes.

FutureX

[Craig F]

Pro Tools needs to have block level access to the hard drives that it records to.
Most RAIDs only give Volume level access to applications.
This is why Pro Tools doesn't work with most RAIDs.
I'd take 2 drives in Round Robin before I trusted a RAID 0 with my audio.

[Jeffrey Talbot]

and for what it's worth

I have both a internal and a external drive, both formatted with HFS+, and can't record to either drive..

[sunburst79]

In regards to the OP. Most external drives ship formatted FAT32 since its a universal format and can be read and written two from Mac Windows and Linux. Since PT dropped FAT32 support as of 7.4 you will need to format the drive as HFS+ or NTFS in you were on Windows. Chances are that once you convert to to something PT will let you write to you troubles will be gone.

[robro86]

I'm juming in as well as am having thed same issue. The thing is: up until a few days ago I was up and running smoothly. I have no solutions. I'm running PTLE 7.4.2

robro

[erolsommer]

I'm getting the same message "Not a valid audio volume" when I try to set up my HFS+ volume for recording in the workspace. I'm Runninng PT 8 LE on Vista and want to access my HFS+ media drive. When I run PT under Leopard it accesses the drive just fine. It sees it in Vista, but won't record to it. Any thoughts?

[Craig F]

Vista is unsupported with Pro Tools at this time so I don't think that Mac Open (or what ever comes w/ PT windows for opening HFS+ drives) will help