003 rack+ will not work with pro tools 9!

[vash]

I've been trying to get it to work right for weeks.

I can get it to recognize it sometimes, but then all of a sudden it will just glitch out and switch to this "pro tools aggregate" crap, even though the mac system is communicating just fine with the 003.

I went through avid's optimization checklist for disabling updates and certain features in the OS to

I have an i7 Imac 27" running on 10.6.4 with solid state and HDD drive built in. FW800 to FW400 cable to my 003.

I have loaded the 003 family drivers and the DigiDioMidi bug fix.

How do I get this thing working again and how to I make it NOT jump back to the stupid pro tools aggregate setting (I never had these problems on PC with pro tools LE 7. This is very frustrating that I bought this beastly computer for pro Tools 9 only for pro tools 9 to render my only audio interface worthless.

I have seen other people having this problem on forums, but I havent seen any good answers.

Also, is something wrong with the search function for this forums? no matter what I type in it comes up with "no results found"

Please point me to the right discussions or help me if you know the problem. I think that there are some conflicting drivers somewhere, but I can;t figure it out.

[albee1952]

Did you see that there are separate drivers for the RACK version?

[Park Seward]

I have seen reports that the FW800 to 400 may be problematic.

When booting, hold down "N" and you can select your audio engine.

[maxon]

sometimes 003+ works only with original FW 400 cable.

[vash]

Originally Posted by albee1952

Did you see that there are separate drivers for the RACK version?

For Mac there is just a family driver.

Originally Posted by Park Seward

I have seen reports that the FW800 to 400 may be problematic.

When booting, hold down "N" and you can select your audio engine.

It has nothing to do with the Firewire cable, it was working just fine before. It is something to do with conflicting drivers or drivers getting erased when I reboot the computer.

Originally Posted by maxon

sometimes 003+ works only with original FW 400 cable.

003Rack+ works with every firewire cable I've ever used, even a microFW 400 to old HP laptop.

[Park Seward]

No, it's not the cable.

Did you try booting while pressing "N"?

From Digi:

"Connecting 003 to a FireWire port of an external drive that is connected to a computer does not support maximum track count." Is your internal hard drive on the FW bus or on the SATA bus?