Specifications

Mbox 2 Mini Getting Started Guide
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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).
Seek Times on Partitioned Drives
Seek times are actually faster on partitioned drives (as-
suming that reads and writes are performed on a single
partition), since the heads only have to seek within the
partition boundaries, rather than the whole capacity of
the drive.
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.