Firewire Drive w/ Mix System

[UTS]

Hi there,

I have a Mix System consisting of Mixfarm/D24/DSP Farm on a B/W G3 on OS 9.2.2 with 896 MB Ram. I have a Firewire drive (80 GB) attached which should meet the specs (7200 rpm) but I get Disk to slow or too fragmented errors all the time. Did anybody have luck with Firewire on B/W G3? If so, which drives/and or Pro Tools Settings do you recommend? I thought about partitioning the drive could help for better performance...is that right? If so, which tool do you use to partition drives on OS 9 and how do you do it?

Thanks for your help,

Markus

[tuchel]

I used (and still use, though I have a G4) firewire drives with the oxford 911 chipset with my 350 G3. That was the key for me, never had any trouble with those drives. You can find them most anywhere, but I bought mine here: http://www.owc.net/

tuchel

[boneboy]

Do the Glyph firewire drives have the oxford 911 chipset?

Thanks

[Nick Batzdorf]

Firewire can do that sometimes. I haven't noticed this very much recently (possibly because of OS X?), but you can have two of the exact same model drive and case, and one will never complain and the other will disk-too-slow you to death.

The only solution when that happens is to split the audio over two drives. Restarting Pro Tools works for a couple of minutes but then it happens again. Always.

[Nick Batzdorf]

Thinking about it, I'm very sure it's OS X Panther that's improved things, because I'm not using any new drives for recording.

[MARVINBASS]

Do the Glyph firewire drives have the oxford 911 chipset?

Thanks

Yes they do, and a matter of fact, they were the first to intoduce firewire for Audio. I use them exclusively and never had problems with them. (My 2¢)

[UTS]

Hi,

I bought a new enclosure today with the Oxford 911 chip and - voila!- all problems went away! So if anybody is experiencing firewire weirdness...go and get an enclosure with that Oxford chip!

Best and thanks alot for your help,


Markus