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Old 11-04-2010, 09:20 AM
Rich Breen Rich Breen is offline
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Default Re: GUID vs. APM partition scheme question

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Originally Posted by suicune View Post
Whilst this is true for a transfer only drive as the OP specified, I should point out that Digitechsupt have stated quite clearly in a number of threads that using APM partition schemes on Intel mac audio drives and vice versa can/will cause disk errors. If you have to move a drive between PPC/Intel then use APM, but for audio and system drives use APM for PPC and GUID for intel.
Every project I've worked on in the last year has been APM shuttling between outside studios and my place on mostly MacIntels (I'm on a MacPro PT8.1) - I probably have 50 APM drives here, mostly large projects/high sample rate - no issues whatsoever with this formatting.

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rich
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