I've heard so much conflicting testimony about Lacie external drives. Your point that it appears on all the external drives is something I hadn't thought of in exactly that way. The internal drives play everything without any problem.
It's time consuming and sometimes confusing when you have to continually shift clips--in my case, JPOP music videos--from some external drive to the one 500 GB internal drive that has space since the first internal drive is filled up with my applications. Thanks again. Randolfe Wicker Hoboken, NJ --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for this list, Brook - that's really helpful. > I've had problems with Lacie drives. And yet I've still bought more. > My initial thought about your problem is that given that it repeats > on all your drives, regardless of manufacturer, it's something to do > with your computer - your ports or some software problem, or a cable, > or a setting. > > On 16-Sep-08, at 12:31 PM, Brook Hinton wrote: > > Make sure the drives are formatted Mac HFS+. Video will not work > reliably if > they are formatted for both mac and windows, even if they mount. > Make sure you have the computer set to never put hard drives to sleep in > your preferences. (And avoid MyBooks, which ignore this setting). > Make sure you never fill the drive up beyond 80%. > Make sure every firewire cable is good. They can go bad. > Make sure no cable is more than 14.5', Ideally much much shorter, > especially > if you are using multiple devices. > Make sure every firewire device in the chain is on. > Make sure every port is good - on the drives AND on the computer. > Make sure your video is in a format your software likes. > It's a lot of work, but that's the usual firewire troubleshooting > list. It's > rarely the drive unless you've been unplugging it or turning it off > without > dismounting it. > > _______________________________________________________ > Brook Hinton > film/video/audio art > www.brookhinton.com > studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
