> So, does this point to a problem with the external firewire drive? Does > anybody else know of problems with the Maxtor One-touch 250 GB > (firewire/usb)? It has a 7200 rpm drive with 8 MB cache, I made sure of > that when I bought it. > > On the other hand, it could be just an overload of the firewire bus I > guess. I'll do some more testing tomorrow. (As George suggested: play > off the internal audio for example.) I tested the Maxtor. I had problems dropping in in my standard test 8-track 24-bit session. Brought it back. LaCie still rules. Cheers, Zip