pisces,
check to see that your drive is 7200 rpm. Now, what driver are u using? If you are using asio, go to driver preferences 2 and select
"use larger disk buffer"
"use larger process buffer"
How many tracks do you want to use?
IF you want to have 8 tracks, then set your maximum number of tracks to something like 16 to give you more room. Dont set it to 64. I heard it reduces track count.
How many tracks do you get without plugins. WIth my optimised pentium 566 celeron with 256 megs, I have gotten 30tracks of 24/48 with some plugins, and it could have handled more.
Is your system optimised? I had a friend with a 900 but my system ran faster because he had unnecessary things like
screen saver
system sounds
wall paper
a ton of things in memory like antivirus, messenger etc.
Try and fix these and see if it helps any.
ps. Do you use screensets? they make working with logic faster.