dae -87

[getemup]

I have my laptop now 855 chipset My laptop doesnt have a firewire port. I bought a firewire/usb external harddrive and a firewire/usb hub. Now when I hit play in pro tools I get this DAE -87 error message....

How do I get around yet another PT problem?

Laptop specs:
855 chipset
P4
512 Ram
80 gig external harddrive
40 harddrive on my laptop
Dell latitude

[spkguitar]

You said your laptop does not have a firewire port? I'm a little confused as to what you bought; a firewire/USB hub? how are you hooking that to the laptop if you don't have a firewire interface?

Pro Tools does not support external USB drives.

[getemup]

okay this is how I have everything set-up...

I have my MPC and fnatom and triton going into my alesis mixer.
I have my mixer bable outputs running into my MBOX (no problem there)
I have my MBOX running into my USB/Firewire HUB by USB connection.
I also have my external hardrive running into my Hub (I use my external hardrive for my audio)
I have my HUB running into my laptop (USB)

My laptop doesnt have a firewire connection and only one USB port.

I have Pro Tools on my C drive

I checked the digidesign site and this is the answers they gave me for that DAE-87 error.

This is a SCSI transfer rate error. Typical casues:

- Drives are too full or fragmented.
- Attempting to play 24-bit from an IDE drive.

My drives arent fragmented and I dont know what the rest of this means..

[Bastiaan]

get some other USB-port somehow. PMCIA-card or base-station stuff. I think you get that message because the USB port is too busy with the mbox and the harddisk at the same time....