G5 + 002 + External Hd Setup, What's the best way to set it up? Options

[cybercampbell]

Hi all

I just have a simple question...how should I set my system up?

I have:

Mac G5 Dual 2Ghz
Digi002
Internal 160Gig HD (with Tiger on it)
Internal 160Gig HD (spare)
External FW HD (Currently my Audio Drive)

I get Drive too slow errors and I still get CPU errors which I hate and was the reason for upgrading to the G5.

What is the best setup? The G5 has 2 Firewire posts, 1x 400 Mbit/s and 1x 800 Mbit/s ( I know you guys know this ).

The Digi002 has 2x Firewire 400Mbit/s Ports.

I can have my audio drive as the Internal main drive, internal secondry drive or external Firewire drive 400Mbit/s or 800Mbit/s.

I also have a 6 pin to 9 pin firewire cable.

Any ideas?

Is it better to run the 002 on the 800Mbit/s port or the Audio Drive? what need to work faster?

Any help will be much appreciated.

Cheers
Cybercampbell

[cybercampbell]

Thanks for the advice.

I'm running PT 6.9.2 (Tiger compatable)

at the moment i'm running the digi002 on the FW400 port and I have my sample libraries running on and external drive on the other FW400 port and I have the master drive (containing the OS) as my audio drive.

Is it better to have the Audio drive on the secondry drive?

I only have 512MB of RAM...could that cause the problem?

am I correct in saying that because the digi002 has a FW400 then there is no point running it on the FW800 port in the G5 (with a 9 to 6 pin lead)? or would I get better performance from the FW800 Port?

I usualy run at 24bit and I get the error message even if i'm only running 10 tracks.

I sometimes run Reason 3 for some basic programming and that seems to make the problem alot worse....but the thing is that the CPU monitor in PT is not even half way, even when Reason 3 is wired in. I launched Activity monitor and the PT is between 30 to 35% and Reason is ony about 1 to 3% usage....how come I get CPU errors in PT?

Here are all the details acording to Activity Monitor:



Here are the error mesages I get in Protools:



I get this and I don't even have any plugins inserted!!
and the buffer is set full...like this:



which sucks when I need to record due to the latency

I also get these alot:





Here is a Hardware overview of my machine:



And my Ram overview:



Is this enough Ram? could this be causing my problems? is there better Ram then this?

also...I thought I would add that I've tryed having both 0%CPU usage in Reason as well as 70% (full) and this made no difference.

and also tried ticking and unticking the box "Use Hi-Res Samples" also no difference.

WHat should I set here in the reason prefs for the best performance?

I hope this make sense.

Cheers
Cybercampbell

This post has been edited by cybercampbell: Fri 19 Aug 2005, 11:06