Specifications

Appendix C: Hard Drive Configuration and Maintenance

• Select “Perform a quick format.”

• Make sure “Enable file and folder compression” is

not selected.

• Set the Allocation unit size to Default.

• Click OK.

Formatting Mac Audio Drives

(Mac Only)

For optimum performance, audio drives should be for-

matted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled).

To format an audio drive:

1 Launch the Disk Utility application, located in Appli-

cations/Utilities.

2 Click the Erase tab.

3 Select the drive you want to initialize in the column

on the left side of the window.

4 Choose the Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format.

5 Type a name for the new volume.

6 If you plan to connect the drive to a Mac OS 9 com-

puter, select Install Mac OS 9 Drivers.

7 Click Erase.

The drive appears on the Desktop with the new volume

name.

Partitioning Drives

Partitioning creates a logical volume or volumes on a

physical drive, almost as if you were creating virtual

hard drives. Partitions can then be formatted with the

appropriate file system (NTFS for Windows, HFS+ for

Mac).

Pro Tools only supports Basic drive types. Do

not convert the drive to a Dynamic type

Disk Utility (Mac OS X)

Do not choose the “Case-Sensitive” format op-

tion. Pro Tools will not operate properly with

case-sensitive formatted drives.

Windows XP allows drives formatted with the

NTFS file system to be seen as whole volumes.

Single Pro Tools audio files cannot exceed

2048 MB in size.

Mac OS allows drives larger than 4096 MB to

be seen as whole volumes. Drives must be ini-

tialized with a disk utility that recognizes the 2

terabyte limit. Single Pro Tools audio files can-

not exceed 2048 MB in size.