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Help with drive locking up on Audio Streaming with Cool Edit Pro
Hi,
I have Cool Edit Pro 2.1 loaded on my C drive, and the audio files are on a separate D drive. After editing for a while, the D drive says 'device not ready' and I get a bluescreen. I can go into the Windows Explorer and click on the directory tree, and some of the tree branches will open, and some will give the 'retry' error. If I try to run Norton from Windows, I get a 'drive is not configured correctly' and it cannot scan the D drive. After shutting down and waiting a few hours, I reboot and everything is fine. Norton does its little 'scantest' and the D drive is back again. This never happened until I started streaming audio from the drive. This only seems to happen after I have been editing for an hour or so. --- What I am wondering is, and hopefully someone will have a clue: a. Is this a temperature issue with the drive? It passes the Norton tests fine. If it is a temperature issue, can I fix it somehow? I have a fairly large Antec case that has three fans in it. I have 4 drives in the case. There is a drive selector with three boot drives, and then the big D data drive is below them. I think all of them spin up even though you can only boot to one of the three at a time. b. Does Cool Edit have a history of a 'lockup' bug? Would the adobe auditon upgrade fix it perhaps? c. If the drive simply cannot handle the work, I have a Western Digital USB 2.0 drive and a 2.0 port. Is that considered fast enough for audio? --- Thanks, I'm using Win98, 512 RAM, IBM drives [these are not the bad GXP's, however you never know I guess] --- Mark |
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mark mark wrote:
Hi, I have Cool Edit Pro 2.1 loaded on my C drive, and the audio files are on a separate D drive. After editing for a while, the D drive says 'device not ready' and I get a bluescreen. It's a sick drive. At current pricing there is no excuse not to replace it, if your data is worth anything. I can go into the Windows Explorer and click on the directory tree, and some of the tree branches will open, and some will give the 'retry' error. Gaak! Put the drive out of its misery. Get any data that's worth a nickel off of it! If I try to run Norton from Windows, I get a 'drive is not configured correctly' and it cannot scan the D drive. The drive is probably locked up internally. After shutting down and waiting a few hours, I reboot and everything is fine. So you like playing Russian roulette with your data? Norton does its little 'scantest' and the D drive is back again. This never happened until I started streaming audio from the drive. How you use the drive should never make it lock up. BTW, what you do mean, "streaming audio?" Is it part of some kind of an online file server? This only seems to happen after I have been editing for an hour or so. Shouldn't be a problem. What I am wondering is, and hopefully someone will have a clue: Sick drive! a. Is this a temperature issue with the drive? How hot is the drive? Uncomfortable to the touch? It passes the Norton tests fine. If it is a temperature issue, can I fix it somehow? Keep it cool! Have free space around the drive with air flowing through it. I have a fairly large Antec case that has three fans in it. I have 4 drives in the case. There is a drive selector with three boot drives, and then the big D data drive is below them. I think all of them spin up even though you can only boot to one of the three at a time. If the power is hooked up to them, the drives will spin. b. Does Cool Edit have a history of a 'lockup' bug? Would the adobe Audition upgrade fix it perhaps? No and no. c. If the drive simply cannot handle the work, I have a Western Digital USB 2.0 drive and a 2.0 port. Is that considered fast enough for audio? Yes. I'm using Win98, 512 RAM, IBM drives [these are not the bad GXP's, however you never know I guess] Drives aren't supposed to lock up under stress. |
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On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 05:01:19 -0400, "Arny Krueger"
wrote: mark mark wrote: Hi, I have Cool Edit Pro 2.1 loaded on my C drive, and the audio files are on a separate D drive. After editing for a while, the D drive says 'device not ready' and I get a bluescreen. It's a sick drive. At current pricing there is no excuse not to replace it, if your data is worth anything. I can go into the Windows Explorer and click on the directory tree, and some of the tree branches will open, and some will give the 'retry' error. Gaak! Put the drive out of its misery. Get any data that's worth a nickel off of it! Mark - I've had a power supply fan quit which showed up with an increase of disk errors. Replaced the power supply (w/ fan) and the hard disk error rates cleared. Good luck, Andy |
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"Andy Eng" wrote in message ... On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 05:01:19 -0400, "Arny Krueger" wrote: mark mark wrote: Hi, I have Cool Edit Pro 2.1 loaded on my C drive, and the audio files are on a separate D drive. After editing for a while, the D drive says 'device not ready' and I get a bluescreen. It's a sick drive. At current pricing there is no excuse not to replace it, if your data is worth anything. I can go into the Windows Explorer and click on the directory tree, and some of the tree branches will open, and some will give the 'retry' error. Gaak! Put the drive out of its misery. Get any data that's worth a nickel off of it! I do have a backup USB drive, but thanks for reminding me. Mark - I've had a power supply fan quit which showed up with an increase of disk errors. Replaced the power supply (w/ fan) and the hard disk error rates cleared. Good luck, Andy Ok this sounds like a similar problem, thanks. I discovered that all the drives are in the bottom half of the case, near the front, which has a 'grill' for air to pass thru. There are only two fans in the back, plus the power supply has a fan. I found a small 6" fan for about 10$ to stand up directly in front of the grill and blow fresh air into the case. That will generate a lot more air movement than the little fans in the back of the case can pull on their own. Plus it is a very easy fan to install. I've never had any problems with this drive before, until I started doing multi-tracks with cool edit. I think it is just overheating and then getting a write error. If the fan fixes it and the problem does not occur again I'll post about it. Mark |
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Mark,
Is DMA enabled in the device manager under 'disk drives'. Have you enabled UDMA /ATA100 from the CMOS setup? set to AUTO? Have you set any 'unusual' performance settings for the harddrives or the IDE. e.g. IDE block prefetch or something along those lines? Streaming to me is when your downloading and then listening to the stream. You are referring to 'just' editing of a file already on the HARDDRIVE right? What type of files? midi -WAV -mp3- WMA? 'D' drive is the external USB? No? is it a western digital? run the diagnostic program from the utilities disk. No disk? http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp maxtor? http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads/powermax.htm HTH, Joe "mark mark" wrote in message hlink.net... Hi, I have Cool Edit Pro 2.1 loaded on my C drive, and the audio files are on a separate D drive. After editing for a while, the D drive says 'device not ready' and I get a bluescreen. I can go into the Windows Explorer and click on the directory tree, and some of the tree branches will open, and some will give the 'retry' error. If I try to run Norton from Windows, I get a 'drive is not configured correctly' and it cannot scan the D drive. After shutting down and waiting a few hours, I reboot and everything is fine. Norton does its little 'scantest' and the D drive is back again. This never happened until I started streaming audio from the drive. This only seems to happen after I have been editing for an hour or so. --- What I am wondering is, and hopefully someone will have a clue: a. Is this a temperature issue with the drive? It passes the Norton tests fine. If it is a temperature issue, can I fix it somehow? I have a fairly large Antec case that has three fans in it. I have 4 drives in the case. There is a drive selector with three boot drives, and then the big D data drive is below them. I think all of them spin up even though you can only boot to one of the three at a time. b. Does Cool Edit have a history of a 'lockup' bug? Would the adobe auditon upgrade fix it perhaps? c. If the drive simply cannot handle the work, I have a Western Digital USB 2.0 drive and a 2.0 port. Is that considered fast enough for audio? --- Thanks, I'm using Win98, 512 RAM, IBM drives [these are not the bad GXP's, however you never know I guess] --- Mark |
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Norton does its little 'scantest' and the D drive is back again
Get rid of.. or disable all things NORTON while trying to be productive on your rig. "mark mark" wrote in message hlink.net... Hi, I have Cool Edit Pro 2.1 loaded on my C drive, and the audio files are on a separate D drive. After editing for a while, the D drive says 'device not ready' and I get a bluescreen. I can go into the Windows Explorer and click on the directory tree, and some of the tree branches will open, and some will give the 'retry' error. If I try to run Norton from Windows, I get a 'drive is not configured correctly' and it cannot scan the D drive. After shutting down and waiting a few hours, I reboot and everything is fine. Norton does its little 'scantest' and the D drive is back again. This never happened until I started streaming audio from the drive. This only seems to happen after I have been editing for an hour or so. --- What I am wondering is, and hopefully someone will have a clue: a. Is this a temperature issue with the drive? It passes the Norton tests fine. If it is a temperature issue, can I fix it somehow? I have a fairly large Antec case that has three fans in it. I have 4 drives in the case. There is a drive selector with three boot drives, and then the big D data drive is below them. I think all of them spin up even though you can only boot to one of the three at a time. b. Does Cool Edit have a history of a 'lockup' bug? Would the adobe auditon upgrade fix it perhaps? c. If the drive simply cannot handle the work, I have a Western Digital USB 2.0 drive and a 2.0 port. Is that considered fast enough for audio? --- Thanks, I'm using Win98, 512 RAM, IBM drives [these are not the bad GXP's, however you never know I guess] --- Mark |
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"mark mark" wrote in message ink.net... "Andy Eng" wrote in message ... On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 05:01:19 -0400, "Arny Krueger" wrote: [...] It's a sick drive. At current pricing there is no excuse not to replace it, if your data is worth anything. I can go into the Windows Explorer and click on the directory tree, and some of the tree branches will open, and some will [...] I do have a backup USB drive, but thanks for reminding me. Mark - I've had a power supply fan quit which showed up with an increase of disk errors. Replaced the power supply (w/ fan) and the hard disk error rates cleared. Good luck, Andy Ok this sounds like a similar problem, thanks. [...] I've never had any problems with this drive before, until I started doing multi-tracks with cool edit. I think it is just overheating and then getting a write error. If the fan fixes it and the problem does not occur again I'll post about it. Mark [...] Well the drive did not pass the 'drive fitness test' and the error code said that it was doomed. So I have replaced it. This drive was stacked on top of a few other drives, and although there was space between the drives, there were only two fans in the back of the case, and none in the front. So I think that the lifespan of the drive was shortened by possible abnormal heat buildup. I found a Maxtor 250gig for $150 on sale and used the MaxtorBlast to partition and format it--fairly easy to use. I'll just cross my fingers on the Maxtor. Mark |
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