Data Transfer (again) From Ext. Hd Options

[zaaresh]

Hi there helpful people,

lately i was asking lepetitmartien about recording and saving data on internal hard drives.
my prod. partner and me, we bought 3 hard drives: 1 Samsung 7200 400GB 8MB Cache and two Seagate 7200 320 GB 16MB. The Power Mac is: G4 MDD 2 x 1,25Ghz , 1GB RAM

- We are about to do a data transfer from an external firewire disk (LA CIE 160GB) which was formated and used on OS 9.2. - and there´s the problem nr 1: while trying to copy data - in this case samples from the Sound Banks (Battery, Xtreme Samples, etc.) , mostly aiffs and waves, we discovered that the data size of the copied samples is different to the original size on the external drive.

Anyway: copying succeded, and i can use the samples in LOGIC projects - but what´s the matter, do we use kind of reduced quality samples (??) or is it about a data information problem (while pressing Apple + I) because the LA CIE Drive has another format? what to do to get the right size ?


- The second question starts in LOGIC (version Logic Pro 6.4.) but is as well a Copying problem, I suppose: (I placed this question in the Software / Logic section as well, so please ignore it, if you think it´s in the wrong place)

while trying to save Logic songs as "projects" from the external to the internal drives - although i selected "copy audio + sampler instruments" the programm refuses to copy data from the external hard drive, for ex. it doesn´t copy Battery 2 samples to the project folder - so : the samples cannot be found while the external drive is off.

hope you didn´t fall asleep while reading this post ... , hope anyone can help!
thanks ,

milosz

[lepetitmartien]

You're right lancet, but block size can be of any size in HFS+ if you want to, just format in the terminal Now as not everyone will do so, it's fixed block size.

For whose who wonder the interest of changing this size, take a drive used only for large files, like audio or video, where you stream or record loads. You'll save time and headaches to the drive controller if blocks are big. Big blocks, less blocks, smaller databases for allocation, time saved, drive a little faster/responsive. The "waste" is marginal given the file size. It's of use more critical on heavy hard drive jobs like video work.

By the way, not using HFS+ since OS 8.5 is a bad idea… from personal experience.