my idea is that i have many different os/hardware combinations for testing
to equip each of them with both a boot drive + a record drive internally would be excessive
as i cant use all 4 (or however many) stations at once..
it makes sense more to take my firewire drive for audio record between each system as i switch
i could have one for mac one for pc i suppose but it woudl be much simpler to have just one
are u sure that its not possible to record to fat32 on mac os 9?
the info i was reffering to earlier was this statement :
FAT32 Volumes Not Supported for Recording with Pro Tools 7.4
i dont know the paritculars of the lower versions i only know i have read this
numerous times while viewing other documentation .. that this was the version that they stopped allowing
fat32.. perhaps this is relevant only to the windows version of pt le..
ok i see now that these few statements re: fat32 are regarding using "MacOpener" on the pc
to give the pc compatibility to an HFS+ disk
http://akarchive.digidesign.com/support/docs/PT_51_ReadMe.pdf-To open a session from an HFS/HFS+ drive, the session must be created with Pro Tools 5.1 or later. In addition, the session must not be of mixed file formats. To use mixed-format sessions in Pro Tools LE, first save a session copy in the desired file format (make sure to select the option for “All Audio Files” under What To Copy
-When using the Bounce To Disk command, the bounce destination must be a FAT/FAT32 drive. Bouncing to HFS/HFS+ drives is not supported
-Operations such as opening sessions, initiating playback, drawing waveforms when zoomed, and allocating record files are slower on HFS/HFS+ drives than on FAT/FAT32 drives
-Because MacOpener must clear the disk cache after copying between HFS/HFS+ and FAT/FAT32 drives, Pro Tools LE will launch very slowly after performing these disk copies
-For SDII files to appear in the Import Audio dialog, you must set the File Of Type pop-up menu to “All Files.”
-On Windows Me, when selecting all files in the Import Audio dialog, and some of these files have names with 13 or more characters, none will be added to the import list when clicking Convert All. The files can be added to the list if they are selected individually by Shift-clicking
maybe this is too much headache to be bothered to try for mac/pc compatibility
or maybe it isnt so bad.
i had hoped there was a more seamless 100% support somehow by using fat32 on both
but if there was a better way im sure they would be suggesting this in this readme rather then suggesting the use
of a 3rd party app like macopener