Initial problems with LaCie D2 Quadra and PT 7.4

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I just received a LaCie D2 Quadra 500gb external drive to use mainly with PT (about 90% PT, 10% Reason). I am running PT M-Powered 7.4 with an M-Audio 1814 as my interface. I have 2 questions about it:

1) I moved my PT folder containing all of my session data to the LaCie, to remove it from my main/internal hdd. After I open a session that I moved to the external, when I go to play it, the stop button is solid and the play button begins to flash. Seconds later, "You are running out of CPU power. Remove some RTAS plug-ins or increase the CPU Usage Limit in the Playback Engine dialog. (-9128)" appears. Also, during that process, my speakers pop/crackle with none of the actual audio coming out. This problem never happened to me before I started using the external.

2) How do I set the external to be the main recording drive? I no longer have a need to record to the internal, so is there a way to set it up so that it automatically knows I will be recording to it?

Sorry, I'm new to externals and all the peripherals that go along with them. I appreciate any help. Thanks.
 
1) How have you plugged your HD in? FW400/FW800 ? If FW400, is it sharing the same FW buss as you 1814?

2) PT should automatically record to whatever drive your session folder is placed in. To check this, under Setup, check your Disc Allocations. This will tell you where the audio shall be placed for each track.




What OS are you running?
 
I have it plugged into the FW800 port. I'm running OSX 10.5.7...probably shouldn't have upgraded, but didn't really think about it. Stupid me!!:mad:
 
Is it Pro Tools M-Powered 7.4.2 or 7.4?

Upgrading to 10.5.7 was certainly not a good idea until Digidesign have qualified it. Without resinstalling the OS - you will be out in the wilderness for a while!
 
Not sure what MAC you are running on (if it's in the thread, sorry I missed that)... what MessianicDreams asked is important. I am guessing that you have the 1814 on the FW400 port and the new drive on the FW800 port. Unfortunately some MACs (iMac, MAC book Pro, etc) although having 2 FW interfaces at different speeds, share the same FW bus on the back-end, which causes severe grief with PT.

I think your drive has an Oxford 912 chipset) so ONE recommended configuration is;
FW800 port -> FW800 Driveport, FW400 port (on the drive) out to the FW port on the 1814

See if that solves the CPU problem....

More info on configuration options can be found here; http://www.digidesign.com/index.cfm?navid=3&langid=100&categoryid=35&itemid=36993
 
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I'm running 7.4.2. I'm running a MacBook Pro 2.4ghz 4gb RAM. Seeing that it's a MBP, should I run it through the FW400 on the 1814 then, instead of the FW800 on the MBP?...or do you mean, connect it both ways??
 
The configuration above is actually from the DIGI support page. I would try your drive into the FW800 (on the MBP) and your 1814 into the FW400 port on the drive. What I think this does is step the FW port on the MBP down to FW400.

I run an (OS X 10.5.6) iMac with a projectMix I/O and what worked for me is; the PM I/O into the FW800 port thru a 6/9 pin conversion cable and the drive through the FW400 port into the FW400 port on the host (iMac).

So try chaining through the drive first and see if that works for you.
 
bradch00 said:
The configuration above is actually from the DIGI support page. I would try your drive into the FW800 (on the MBP) and your 1814 into the FW400 port on the drive. What I think this does is step the FW port on the MBP down to FW400.

I run an (OS X 10.5.6) iMac with a projectMix I/O and what worked for me is; the PM I/O into the FW800 port thru a 6/9 pin conversion cable and the drive through the FW400 port into the FW400 port on the host (iMac).

So try chaining through the drive first and see if that works for you.
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Didn't work :(. I connected the drive to the FW800 and the 1814 to the FW400 on the back on the drive. Got the same audio pops and CPU overload message as before.
 
Well you could try chaining the drive thru the 1814 into the FW400 port, the 6 to 9 pin converter (which works on my iMac)... or a SIIG Firewire port PCIe card....

Sorry I can't tell you which one will work for you...
 
bradch00 said:
Well you could try chaining the drive thru the 1814 into the FW400 port, the 6 to 9 pin converter (which works on my iMac)... or a SIIG Firewire port PCIe card....

Sorry I can't tell you which one will work for you...
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Putting the drive into the second FW400 port on the 1814 is the only option that worked. Thanks for all the help, guys. As much as I wanted to use the FW800, I'm not having any problems using the FW400 as of now.
 
pezking said:
Is it Pro Tools M-Powered 7.4.2 or 7.4?

Upgrading to 10.5.7 was certainly not a good idea until Digidesign have qualified it. Without resinstalling the OS - you will be out in the wilderness for a while!
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Wow they turned that around quickly! Turns out 10.5.7 is now fully supported with Pro Tools HD LE and M-Powered as of late last night
 
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