iMac Pro Tools 8 ProFire 2626 - External Drive Setup

weissguy · 9th January 2009

I have the new iMac running firewire to the ProFire 2626 with Pro Tools 8. I worked on some holiday videos which ate up 100 gigs. So I just bought a 1 TB internal drive with an macally enclosure.
I've spent some time researching the best way to format, and hook up the drive. I wanted to ask anyone out there with imacs, firewire recording devices on advice before I set this up.
How should I format the drive and wire it up with both the profire and the external drive being firewire - am I going to run into issues?
Anything special I should to do format and configure the drive with mac and protools?

Thanks.

weissguy · 10th January 2009

My installation has been cut short thanks to the special 9-pin firewire connection on the iMac. I have a pile of firewire cables here and none of them work.

I'm still wondering what is optimal - the Profire 2626 to the FW400 and the external drive to the FW800 or the other way around... or maybe it doesn't make a difference because the 6-pin is makes it a 400 device???

9th January 2009	#1
weissguy Gear nut Join Date: May 2008 Location: Denver Posts: 77 Thread Starter	iMac Pro Tools 8 ProFire 2626 - External Drive Setup I have the new iMac running firewire to the ProFire 2626 with Pro Tools 8. I worked on some holiday videos which ate up 100 gigs. So I just bought a 1 TB internal drive with an macally enclosure. I've spent some time researching the best way to format, and hook up the drive. I wanted to ask anyone out there with imacs, firewire recording devices on advice before I set this up. How should I format the drive and wire it up with both the profire and the external drive being firewire - am I going to run into issues? Anything special I should to do format and configure the drive with mac and protools? Thanks.

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10th January 2009	#2
weissguy Gear nut Join Date: May 2008 Location: Denver Posts: 77 Thread Starter	My installation has been cut short thanks to the special 9-pin firewire connection on the iMac. I have a pile of firewire cables here and none of them work. I'm still wondering what is optimal - the Profire 2626 to the FW400 and the external drive to the FW800 or the other way around... or maybe it doesn't make a difference because the 6-pin is makes it a 400 device???