Please help, mbp i5 w/ profire 610

[fnmetal]

Hi, I'm very new to pt, and macs in general and I'm having a peculiar issue. When I start my computer protools opens fine, but when I create a new track the interface seems to stop communicating with protools, if I quit out of pt and power off the 610, then power it back on and reopen pt, everything seems to work fine.. My setup is this mbp 800 port > glyph 050q 400 port > profire 610, any suggestions/help would be greatly appreciated being that I am completely new to protools, macs, and osx for that matter.

Additionally, if this is something I have to do to make the interface work, can it be detrimental to my equipment to power the profire 610 off with the computer still running?

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Chris Morrow

[fnmetal]

Suggestions?

[Zooce]

I'm not completely understanding how you have your hardware hooked up, but if you have the Glyph drive hooked up to the computer, and the ProFire 610 hooked up to the Glyph drive, I would try to switch that around...

...connect your ProFire 610 to the computer (use a FW400 to FW800 cable if you need to) then connect the Glyph drive to the ProFire 610 via FW400.

Try that out and let us know if that helps.

-Zooce

[fnmetal]

Am incorrect to assume that if I use that configuration, I will be giving away some of my transfer speed; because the 800 port will not be utilized?

[bradch00]

Am incorrect to assume that if I use that configuration, I will be giving away some of my transfer speed; because the 800 port will not be utilized?
Unfortunately (to the best of my knowledge) you can't mix FW400 and FW800 on the FW800 port. You need to step the port speed on the host down to FW400, you do this by connecting the first device in the chain as a FW400 device, so that's either by connecting the FW400 port on the drive to FW800 port on the host (MAC) or by connecting the 610 to the FW800 port on the MAC.

Either way you will need FW800/FW400 cables or an adapter.

I have the same issue on the new iMacs, 1 FW800 port. The first device is a drive connected through it's FW400 port to the FW800 port on the MAC. The projectMix I/O connected to the drive....

[Zooce]

Am incorrect to assume that if I use that configuration, I will be giving away some of my transfer speed; because the 800 port will not be utilized?
It's not going to matter whether you're hooked up via FW800 or FW400, the ProFire 610 is FW400 and it's only going to transfer data at the FW400 rate.

Don't worry, FW400 is more than capable of transferring enough data to run PT.

[fnmetal]

I really appreciate your help guys, I'll give your suggestions a try and let you know how I make out; just need to pick up a 9pin to 6pin cable/adapter.
Thanks again.