Need help setting up dedicated audio drive!

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Hello, all! I have been plagued with ProTools problems for a year now, and I've been getting into some particularly heavy mixing, and my system is basically useless, reduced to just glitch sounds and skipping, pops, just horrible, horrible stuff. I figured out that my problem was probably that I didn't have a dedicated audio drive, so I just went out and bought an external firewire drive. I set it to Record in the workspace, and changed the disk allocation for my session to the audio drive, but it didn't solve the problem. What am I doing wrong? What should my Computer's hard drive be? Transfer? PLEASE HELP, I NEED to get my system working, like right now. I run Protools M-Powered 7.4, Mac OS X 10.4.11 (with installed PT update), 2.0 Gb of Ram, 2 Ghz intel core 2 duo, and a fast Track Pro.
Cheers!

[Eric Seaberg]

Since you have a new FW drive, did you initialize it first using Apple's Disk Utility? Most drives, unless they're Mac specific, are initialized for PCs.

Then in your 'workspace' window, select the new drive and make sure it's set to 'R' for recording.

Try that...

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Yeah, I've done that already, but it doesn't seem to be making any difference at all. Is that seriously all you do to take the load of the computer's CPU? Because my CPU is still mad clipping and just making PT unusable. My CPU usage is up to 90 percent, and my buffers have to be cranked, so it's not any of that jazz.

[JrummerJ]

How many VSTs are you running in a given session? Those can eat CPU like crazy.

J