casey_outlaw

I am going to be recording a live band in the next week and have read several posts here about different formatting of external firewire hard drives, to record onto directly, with PTLE (003R with pres/converters/interface clocked to a Big Ben) on PC. I am recording 18 channels from an isolated splitter for approximately 2 hours at 24/48 as a one shot, set it and forget it, with a two track rough being sent to a backup. I've read that the HD format FAT 32 (?default for external HD's on PC?) is limited in file size to 4 gb per file, and inferred that I may need to reformat an external HD to a different format to deal with the size(length) of what is being recorded. Am I correct in thinking this (what should I format as/to)? Is there anything other than setting the record allocation to open ended in PT that I should to do to create the best chances PT will stay on top of it(ex: playback engine, low latency monitoring)? Thanks