[ddots-l] Re: formatting hard drives for audio

Hi George,

I'm having a bit of trouble adding this hard disk to the system and wonder if you(or anyone) have any suggestions. Here's the problem:

Device manager recognizes the Glyph disk drive, and says in the general tab of the properties dialog that it's working properly. But, it doesn't show up in either windows explorer, or My computer. I need to re-format it for windows XP, but can't see it in windows.

To get to this point I did the following:
with computer off, I connected all cables and powered up the glyph and the computer.
per glyph's instructions in the user manual, I went to administrative tools, selecting computer management, then disk management, and found the "unknown" disk in the list along with the C drive and my CD drive(which were both "known" and "healthy". I right-clicked on the unknown disk and selected "initialize".
Well, up came a dialog with the disk listed in a list box(sole entry) and an OK and Cancel button. I selected the list entry, and the OK button disappeared leaving only the cancel button. I then de-selected the entry and the OK button re-appeared. I re-selected it and pressed enter on the list entry.


the status of the glyph changed to online and unallocated.

and that's where things lay now. the disk is considered initialized, but I can't find it in windows explorer or my computer to format it.

Sorry for the long-winded post. Can you help? I will be calling glyph on Monday, but hey, that's a whole day away and this is a new toy that won't work-you know how that is.

thanks in advance for any help or suggestions.



----- Original Message ----- From: "George Bell" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2006 7:08 PM
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: formatting hard drives for audio


I've formatted many drives under XP, and these days one does
not have to handle Clusters, etc..

The only thing you MAY wish to do is to partition the drive
into smaller drives, but that is your choice and depends on
your requirements.

George.

-----Original Message-----
From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ilkster
Sent: 25 February 2006 21:48
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: formatting hard drives for audio

Thanks George,

What about formatting options?  Any ideas?

----- Original Message ----- From: "George Bell" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2006 4:21 PM
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: formatting hard drives for audio


Hi Ilkster,

NTFS is the most stable and secure format in this situation.

George Bell
Techno-Vision Systems Ltd., U.K.

-----Original Message-----
From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ilkster
Sent: 25 February 2006 21:10
To: ddots-l
Subject: [ddots-l] formatting hard drives for audio

Hello listers,

Well, I went out and bought a 120 GB 7200rpm Glyph firewire
hard drive for
use with my laptop, and I think I'll be happy with it-looks
well-built.
That is, once I get a 6 to 4 pin conversion cable for
it($35-darned laptop
jacks).  Anyway, , I'll need to format it(its pre-formatted
for MAC, but not
for PC's), and I have a few questions.

File system?  Ntfs or FAT32-is either preferable-my laptop
disk is NTFS, but
I don't think they both have to be the same format?

Also, If I'm presented with the opportunity to select things
like allocation
units, cluster sizes etc, is there any "best fit" settings
for audio use?
Will such specialized formatting settings necessitate
changes to sonar's I/O
buffer settings?


Thanks,


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