also;
pro tools le 5.01 also was made during or just before the time that the B&W G3 was brand new...
this would be sometime in ***1999***
2-3 years before the mdd was even made
please meditate on that fact for abit
carefully re-examine
http://archive.digidesign.com/compato/os9/001/gee i wonder why theres no MDD on this list..
by the time the mdd was out.. pro tools 5 was old news to the digi development team and they were working to get up to speed on developing for osx...
the program u are using wasnt even written to be used on that computer.. because that computer didnt even exist when it was written.
during the whole time that 9.2.2 was the current os there was no pro tools major revisions at all.. it was still running off the old code.. (that dated far back into the early 90s) they did some small work (ie putting out the 32 track update.. updates to the tdm systems etcc) but really this app was the same old pro tools from yeras before that had been updated ever so slightly..
EVEN THE DIGI002 page doesnt mention so much as a QS Model
http://archive.digidesign.com/compato/os9/002/now.. examine THIS page;
http://archive.digidesign.com/compato/osx/001/g4.cfmnotice how THIS PAGE references the MDD...
pro tools 6 was written pretty much 100% for the MDD..
truth be told. mac os x was very much already in the picture before they designed + created the mdd machines... they were totally invented + created to run mac os x!!!! originally tested probably running puma + cheetah.. jaguar would come out end of summer 2002
there is a good possibility that the 5.1.1 update can solve some of your problems..... and it is definately reccommended that u use 5.1.1 over 5.0.1
ESPECIALLY if you are using an MDD...
http://archive.digidesign.com/support/readme/PT_5.0.1_ReadMe.pdfdated 05/16/2000
examine this document closer
http://archive.digidesign.com/support/compat/compatodocs501.pdfand u will see that pt 5.01 REQUIRES mac os 8.6 or 9.0 (ie: these are versions of the os that came before 9.2.2 or the hardware that runs on 9.2.2) and the ram requirements were spelled out in a few hundred MEGAbytes not Gigabytes..
http://archive.digidesign.com/support/compat/compatodocs53.pdfthis document seems to be updated to mention 9.2.2 but interesting to note they still reccommend G4 (AGP) as the highly reccommended option... i guess they extendended the definition of this, which orignally referred to the sawtooth 400/450/500 AGP... to also include the QS/MDD machines which as we know are also G4 + also use AGP graphics ports.
more support docs here:
http://archive.digidesign.com/support/docs/u can read thru all of these documents..the "answer" lukpac is looking for doesnt exist..
in a document because nowhere will they mention an upper limit of partition size because there wasnt one... because there were no 1tb or 2 tb or 4tb drives existing then.. in 1999 when pro tools 5.01 was written, 20gb was a large drive size, and there was barely 40gb drives. do u understand how radically different the internals of a 4tb sata drive is compared to a 40gb ata hard drive?
see this article:
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9901/21/honkin.idg/Hard drive experts often talk of a "sweet spot," the drive capacity where dollars-per-megabyte and supply converge to create the most popular configuration. "In 1998, the sweet spot was around 4GB," says Robert Katzive, an analyst at Disk/Trend. "In the next year, it should be somewhere in the 5GB to 10GB range," Katzive says, with 6GB or 8GB the most likely capacity.
The top size of the most expensive desktop drives could easily be nearly two times the 16.8GB that IBM reached in early 1998 with its DeskStar 16GP drive. "We're looking at a 30GB drive by the time the year 2000 rolls around, and for $200," predicts Martin Reynolds, another Gartner Group analyst.
so there u go - when pro tools LE 5.01 was put on the market... a 30gb drive was the normal size. 80gb drives would be coming out in the months that followed.
heres another article on hard drives from summer of 1999
http://www.storagereview.com/articles/9907/990719ataroundup1999.htmlso there u go. summer of '99 300-400$ cost for a 20gb hard drive..
like ive said a bazzilion times in this thread MORE DOES NOT ALWAYS EQUAL BETTER
ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO SOFTWARE on 15 year old computers....
WITH THINGS REGARDING INTERACTION BETWEEN SOFTWARE + COMPUTER HARDWARE ENVIRONMENTS.. change is not GOOD..
introducing unexpected changes to software or hardware results in unexpected results..