On Saturday, May 1, 2004, at 11:48 AM, paulthesinger wrote: > i'm still using logic 4.7 on my G3 with external scsi drive. it has > worked like a dream for years, but often now it crashes as i start > to record, with a loud splintering sound. Is this sound coming through the monitors or from the drive? If it's the drive, back it up fast! > several times i have found a huge file has been instantly created > on my seperate, audio only hard drive...between 200 and 400 > megabytes! > when i play it back its often looped gibberish and sometimes a > half speed playback of an earlier file! First - is the disk very full, or highly fragmented? If so, that could be the problem. It sounds like the disk is having problems identifying free sectors on the drive that it can write to. If not, I'd verify and repair the disk using DIsk First Aid (OS9) or DIsk Utility (OSX) to make sure the disk isn't damaged. I'd also recommend backing up all the data on the drive in case its on it's way out. I've not experienced anything like this, but I'd check the disk over first. I guess that updating your audio card drivers might also be worthwhile. Not sure about this - but maybe these are causing Logic to crash whilst recording to disk. Sorry I can't be of more help.