On 1 Aug 2004, at 11:36, Zip Boterbloem wrote: > >> 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. Thanks Zip, I guess my Maxtor will have to go the ebay route than. Can you recommend a specific range of LaCie? They have quite a variety now. Ben