Andy I don't think the don't go to lunch bug is from firewire. If the drives were going to sleep, then you could go to lunch by leaving Logic looping some audio to keep the drives running, but when I've tested that I've found the error happens anyway. The strange thing is that I an do a bounce of a long track - as long as an hour even - without the don't go to lunch bug. but if I just leave a loop of a 3 minute song on play and let it go for a half hour or so, the bug appears. Maybe the combination of no keyboard and mouse activity, plus being in play mode and not record mode, is the condition to make it happen. I've also noticed that closing the song and reopening it later, is just as good as quitting and restarting Logic for stopping this bug. So lunch is now possible. But the bottom line is, FW drives seem to work fine, The LaCie are the ones I've been using - but they use mostly Maxtor drives inside - and Maxtor is now owned by Seagate - so it's just a question of which case style and interface you like. - Dave David Gordon Composer/Producer Sequoia Records http://www.sequoiarecords.com On Dec 30, 2006, at 12:08 AM, Andy Hardwake wrote: > > On Friday, December 29, 2006, at 4:12 PM, "Greg Critchley" > <greg@gregcritchley.com> wrote: > >> I use Lacie FW drives - suggestions? Are we off topic? > > Not really... I'm just trying to understand what may cause the > "don't go to > lunch" bug other than putting the CPU and HDs to sleep... I was > thinking of > adding some FW drives to my setup (currently I have 4 internal ATA > drives). > Anyone else using FW drives still have the thing? > > Best, > > Andy