Spinning ball, can't save, can't relaunch PTLE, reboot then drive unreadable!

[accession]

As per the title, has happened twice now.

PTLE 8.0.4, running an external FireWire drive from the Digi002R.

Simple session, around 12 x 30sec clips, 2 soft synths, duplicate a simple kick drum MIDI loop several times. Hit play...

...spinning ball for a few minutes, finally clears but can't save (-50 error), close PTLE, but session nor back-up sessions won't load (-9126 error), reboot computer to discover hard drive now won't mount, OS and Disk Utility says drive unreadable and needs to be initialised.

This is the second time this has happened recently since updating to 8.0.4. I don't normally run an external drive from the Digi002R, but need to while my rig is downsized for an impending move across the country.

Any ideas?

Kinda scary, and thank goodness for (semi-) recent drive back-ups.

[SpinningDisk]

You probably already checked this, but have you checked to see what your hard drive was formatted too?

[DigiTechSupt]

Originally Posted by accession

As per the title, has happened twice now.

PTLE 8.0.4, running an external FireWire drive from the Digi002R.

Simple session, around 12 x 30sec clips, 2 soft synths, duplicate a simple kick drum MIDI loop several times. Hit play...

...spinning ball for a few minutes, finally clears but can't save (-50 error), close PTLE, but session nor back-up sessions won't load (-9126 error), reboot computer to discover hard drive now won't mount, OS and Disk Utility says drive unreadable and needs to be initialised.

This is the second time this has happened recently since updating to 8.0.4. I don't normally run an external drive from the Digi002R, but need to while my rig is downsized for an impending move across the country.

Any ideas?

Kinda scary, and thank goodness for (semi-) recent drive back-ups.

The -50 is an OS error - here's a link or two about it:

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10342945-263.html

http://support.apple.com/kb/TA22339?viewlocale=en_US

This could be a number of things - file directory corruption, drive format corruption, the drive just plain going bad, etc.

When you say this is the second time this has happened - is it with the same drive? If so, it's likely the drive is going bad and may need to be replaced. You should back everything up off it, erase it using Disk Utility, then copy all data back - but use it with caution!

Also, make sure you're not using illegal characters anywhere in your drive, folder or file names. Usually you would get a different error if that were the case, but sometimes computers can be quirky...