I recently purchased a Mercury Elite Firewire 800 external drive on the advice of a friend who said I was nuts doing audio with any drive other than one using the OXFORD 911 chipset. I currently use a MAC G4-350 (sawtooth) with half a GIG of RAM and 3 internal ATA/IDE drives, running OS9.1. I have been using one external QUE 120 GIG Firewire 400 drive (which has performed flawlessly). The instructions with the Elite said it would work fine with the 400 protocol - that it would simply default to 400. I connected the Elite via a 400 cable to the "thru" port of the QUE drive. I tried recording some audio with Digital Performer (2.7), and about 20 seconds into the pass, the recording stopped, and the screen froze. I rebooted and then tried simply transfering a file from the QUE to the Elite. About 10 seconds into the transfer, same thing - froze.
Ran Disc Warrior on the Elite and then rebooted. Now file transfer works, but recording live audio still crashes. Help...........
Ran Disc Warrior on the Elite and then rebooted. Now file transfer works, but recording live audio still crashes. Help...........