Error message during playback???

[Mainstream]

Can someone help and tell me why this message keeps popping up during playback in protools 8.0.5? Whut does the mean?

"DAE can't get audio from the drive(s) fast enough. Your drive may be to slow or fragmented, or a FireWire drive could be having trouble due to extra FireWire bandwidth or CPU load. (-9073).

I am lost here, dnt understand????

[albee1952]

What drive are you recording to and how is it connected? How full is the drive?

[Mainstream]

I have a c: system drive and d:drive for audio and that is the drive I record on. The d: drive is a 761gb drive and only 10gb of space has been used so far as for the c:drive the capacity is 149gb and 101gb of free space is available.
I'm using a 003 rack which is connected to the internal FireWire port and a duende mini which is connected to FireWire port that I added to the CPU.

[albee1952]

Maybe a Sandra report would help here.
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[Mainstream]

Apple will not allow me to download the Sandra report software on my IPhone.
Here the specs:PC 150gb system drive, 760gb audio drive, Windows 7,
Xeon 6 1055t processor and 8gb ram, running protools 8.0.5 on on digi 003.

[Darryl Ramm]

Ugh? You really need to get Sandra installed on your PC.

We need Sandra to know the manufacturer/models of the drives, The RPM specs, controller info, etc. if nothing else you should provide those manually.

Are any if the disks FW? If so what controller chipset is in the FW disk? it needs to be Oxford. What chipset is in the FW controllers they need to be manufactured by TI What are the playback engine settings. You should read the "Help Us Help a You" link at the top of this page which talks more about providing a helpful level of information about problems.

Darryl

[Mainstream]

Dae error 9073?
PT 8.0.4. , Digi 003 rack, 512 samples using 4 processors. everything else is at the default level.


Here is my Sandra Report now i can recieve help, thank God!!!


SiSoftware Sandra

Computer
Model : GigaByte GA-880GM-UD2H
Workgroup : WORKGROUP
Host Name : Stratus
User : ALIEN SOUL MUZIK

Processor
Model : AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1055T Processor
Speed : 3.31GHz
Cores per Processor : 6 Unit(s)
Type : Six-Core
Integrated Data Cache : 6x 64kB, Synchronous, Write-Back, 2-way, Exclusive, 64 byte line size
L2 Cache : 6x 512kB, ECC, Synchronous, Write-Back, 16-way, Exclusive, 64 byte line size
L3 Cache : 6MB, ECC, Synchronous, Write-Back, 48-way, 64 byte line size, 6 threads sharing

Computer
Mainboard : GigaByte GA-880GM-UD2H
BIOS : Award (OEM) F8 10/11/2010
Bus(es) : ISA X-Bus PCI PCIe IMB USB FireWire/1394 i2c/SMBus
Multi-Processor (MP) Support : No
Multi-Processor Advanced PIC (APIC) : Yes
Total Memory : 7.5GB DIMM DDR3

Chipset
Model : AMD RS780/880 Host Bridge
Front Side Bus Speed : 2x 2GHz (4GHz)
Shared Memory : 512MB
Channels : 1
Memory Bus Speed : 2x 101MHz (202MHz)

Chipset
Model : AMD F10 Athlon 64/Opteron/Sempron HT Hub
Front Side Bus Speed : 2x 2GHz (4GHz)
Total Memory : 8GB DIMM DDR3
Channels : 2
Memory Bus Speed : 2x 670MHz (1.34GHz)

Memory Module(s)
Memory Module : Samsung M378B5673FH0-CH9 2GB DIMM DDR3 PC3-10700U DDR3-1334 (9-9-9-25 4-34-10-5)
Memory Module : Samsung M378B5673FH0-CH9 2GB DIMM DDR3 PC3-10700U DDR3-1334 (9-9-9-25 4-34-10-5)
Memory Module : Samsung M378B5673FH0-CH9 2GB DIMM DDR3 PC3-10700U DDR3-1334 (9-9-9-25 4-34-10-5)
Memory Module : Samsung M378B5673FH0-CH9 2GB DIMM DDR3 PC3-10700U DDR3-1334 (9-9-9-25 4-34-10-5)

Video System
Video Adapter : ATI Radeon HD 4250 (40 SM4.1 560MHz, 512MB 1.33GHz 32-bit, Integrated Graphics)

Graphics Processor
STREAM GP Processor : ATI Radeon HD 4250 (40SP 2C 560MHz, 512MB 1.33GHz 32-bit, Integrated Graphics)

Storage Devices
WDC WD1002FAEX-007BA0 (1TB, SATA600, 3.5", 7200rpm) : 932GB (C:) (D:)
SAMSUNG HD103SI (1TB, USB2/SATA300, 3.5", 7200rpm, 32MB Cache) : 932GB (F:)
ATAPI iHAS124 B (SATA150, DVD+-RW, CD-RW, 2MB Cache) : N/A (E:)

Logical Storage Devices
TSU X-HDD (F:) : 931GB (FAT32) @ SAMSUNG HD103SI (1TB, USB2/SATA300, 3.5", 7200rpm, 32MB Cache)
SYSTEM (C:) : 150GB (NTFS) @ WDC WD1002FAEX-007BA0 (1TB, SATA600, 3.5", 7200rpm)
Projects1 (D:) : 768GB (NTFS) @ WDC WD1002FAEX-007BA0 (1TB, SATA600, 3.5", 7200rpm)
Recovery : 13GB (NTFS)
Optical Drive (E:) : N/A @ ATAPI iHAS124 B (SATA150, DVD+-RW, CD-RW, 2MB Cache)

Peripherals
LPC Hub Controller 1 : Giga-Byte IXP SB600/700/800 SMBUS Controller
LPC Hub Controller 2 : ATI (AMD) SB700/800 LPC host controller
LPC Legacy Controller 1 : ITE IT8720F
Audio Device : Giga-Byte IXP SB600 High Definition Audio Controller
Audio Device : Giga-Byte RS880 Audio Device [Radeon HD 4200]
Disk Controller : Giga-Byte SB700/800 SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
Disk Controller : Giga-Byte SB700/800 IDE
USB Controller 1 : Giga-Byte SB700/800 USB OHCI0 Controller
USB Controller 2 : Giga-Byte SB700/800 USB OHCI1 Controller
USB Controller 3 : Giga-Byte SB700/800 USB EHCI Controller
USB Controller 4 : Giga-Byte SB700/800 USB OHCI0 Controller
USB Controller 5 : Giga-Byte SB700/800 USB OHCI1 Controller
USB Controller 6 : Giga-Byte SB700/800 USB EHCI Controller
USB Controller 7 : Giga-Byte SB700/800 USB OHCI2 Controller
FireWire/1394 Controller 1 : TI TSB43AB23 1394a-2000 OHCI PHY/link-layer Controller
FireWire/1394 Controller 2 : TI TSB43AB23 1394a-2000 OHCI PHY/link-layer Controller
SMBus/i2c Controller 1 : ATI SB700 SMBus

Printers and Faxes
Printer : Microsoft XPS Document Writer (600x600, Colour)
Fax : Microsoft Shared Fax Driver (200x200)

Network Services
Network Adapter : Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller (Ethernet, 100Mbps)

Operating System
Windows System : Microsoft Windows 7 Home 6.01.7600
Platform Compliance : x64

Windows Experience Index
Current System : 4.5

Performance Enhancing Tips
Warning 100 : Large memory sizes should be made of Registered/Buffered memory.
Tip 2546 : Large memory modules should be ECC/Parity.
Tip 2 : Double-click tip or press Enter while a tip is selected for more information about the tip.

[Darryl Ramm]

Your disk setup is simply not correct for Pro Tools.

You have a fat 32 drive--cannot use that for sessions.

Then you have a single drive partitioned as a system drive and another partition--you cannot use either of those partitions for sessions since the operating system itself puts IO demands on the drive. And trying to record to a separate disk partition on a system drive is actually worse than just trying to just record to the system partition itself since the disk heads now have to seek further between partitions.

You need another disk drive--a *separate* disk drive formatted NTFS to put your session files on. WD Black like you have for your system drive are great. You could reformat the other drive to NTFS but that "green drive" is not really a 7200 RPM drive, regardless of what B.S. marketing claims you see in advertising (or the Sandra report). You can read the litany of problems on DUC with similar native 5400 rpm "but almost as fast as 7200 rpm" green drives. And besides its USB which is often less than great. Go get another WD Black SATA drive.

Darryl

[Mainstream]

Is the Seagate Barracuda any good for Pro Tools instead of the WD Black?

[albee1952]

Originally Posted by Mainstream

Is the Seagate Barracuda any good for Pro Tools instead of the WD Black?

Should be fine. Most any drive that is 7200 rpm(or faster), 16 meg cache(or larger) and no "green" drives allowed