Logic's Dreaded "disc Too Slow" Error Message! Options

[ryanie]

I am running a 1.25 Ghz G4 power book with 1.25 gig of ram. I am running Logic 6.4.1 and I constantly get the "disc too slow" error message if I use more than 5 tracks of audio and an audio instrument. I have tried buying more ram, freeing up space on my hard drive, freezing files, changing buffer size.. everythng! From what I can gather from other fourums it's a pretty common problem and it does not seem to be a hardware problem it seems to be a data transfer problem with Logic. My question is what can I do about it ????
Is it possible to upgrade my Logic 6.4.1 to a more later version of 6 (i dont want to buy logic 7) and will this even help matters?

[lepetitmartien]

LaCie is usually all right though there's been reports of hard drive failure in the last months (at least in Europe). Now the enclosure themselves are fine, it's the drives used which seemed a bad bunch.

this said, no known issue at all known with Logic.

In fact if it's not LaCie, always look at the bridge chipset (oxford are good) then you can check if there's a fan or not etc. If you can see the enclosure IRL, always check the metal parts touch well the drive, the sturdiness of the power adapter if there's one (bigger IS better: small transformers inside will die sooner than later and small switched-mode power supplies will pollute the mains), the finish (if it looks cheap, it is cheap).

For example I've got a USB2/eSATA Icybox as a safety for my G5 SATA internal drives, just in case (had to buy it last year as my CPU was dead), the enclosure looks cheap (a few part are in plastic and shouldn't be), but the bridge is fine, no fan and none needed (vent all around, fin metal plates touch the 2 large surfaces of the hard drive), sturdy adapter, I wouldn't recommend it for live or on the move use, but at home, it's fine. This one is widely available in Europe, I don't know for North America, I don't remember to have seen it online in US shops… Just an exemple of a compromise (cheapest SATA to something I could plug enclosure I've found a year ago)