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quincyg · 30th June 2006

fyi,
the g5's have had a lot of problems reported when using both the 400 and 800 bus's at the same time. i ran into hard drive corruption doing this and finally after alot of searching found out about this issue. i bought a lacie fw800 card and put my fireface on it and run my sample hard drive from a fw400 port. problem solved. i do all tracking to an internal sata drive which is blazing. i can get 16 channels recording adat with 20-30 tracks playing without and problems.
if its working for you then no problem. if your drives start acting weird then think about my suggestion. my symptoms were external hard drive that would just transfer data slower and slower over the course of days. i would repair drive with disk utility and then it would become corrupt again over the next days again.

30th June 2006	#17
quincyg Lives for gear Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 2,154	fyi, the g5's have had a lot of problems reported when using both the 400 and 800 bus's at the same time. i ran into hard drive corruption doing this and finally after alot of searching found out about this issue. i bought a lacie fw800 card and put my fireface on it and run my sample hard drive from a fw400 port. problem solved. i do all tracking to an internal sata drive which is blazing. i can get 16 channels recording adat with 20-30 tracks playing without and problems. if its working for you then no problem. if your drives start acting weird then think about my suggestion. my symptoms were external hard drive that would just transfer data slower and slower over the course of days. i would repair drive with disk utility and then it would become corrupt again over the next days again.