Specifications

Power Macintosh Beige G3 - Digi 001 Performance Issues &
Requirements
During the development of the Pro Tools LE, Digidesign tested the
Apple "beige" G3 line (all speeds) with Digi 001. During testing we
encountered random occurrences of a particular software error with
our DAE (Digidesign Audio Engine) and the beige G3 line. The error,
"DAE -6045" would pop-up inexplicably during normal operation of
Pro Tools LE. While this error is non-fatal, it will stop playback or
record of a Pro Tools LE system. Digidesign engineering spent weeks
trying to find the cause of this error without a successful fix.
There is some good news - to continue through the error simply click
OK. We suggest saving the session and rebooting the computer to
completely clear the error. Although all other aspects of Digi 001 and
beige G3 configuration function satisfactory, the repetitive nature of
this error caused us concern here at Digidesign. This explains why
Digidesign is not formally supporting beige G3 configurations with
001 (we still support beige G3's with Audiomedia III cards and TDM
systems). We did not make this decision lightly due to the large
installed base of beige G3 customers. However, here at Digidesign,
we believe in shipping solid systems that our customers can count on.
Digi 001 Beige G3 Requirements
● Mac OS 9.0, 9.0.2, 9.0.4 required
SCSI HBA Card NOT required: Although Pro Tools LE supports a
full 24 tracks of record and playback on a dedicated ATA/IDE hard
drive, use of a SCSI HBA card with a SCSI drive can increase some
performance aspects of your Digi 001 system: for more information
refer to the
Audio Storage Requirements page. Optional SCSI HBA
cards bundled (by Apple) with Power Macintosh computers are not
compatible with this configuration due to the lack of NV RAM to store
Pro Tools desired SCSI transfer rate.
The following SCSI HBA cards are qualified for use with Beige G3
models —
ATTO ExpressPCI SCSI HBA cards including:
● PSC (ExpressPCI Single Channel Ultra/WIDE HBA)
● EPCI-DC (ExpressPCI Dual Channel Ultra/WIDE HBA)
with the following requirements:
● ATTO ExpressPCI Firmware v1.4.4 f1, available at:
http://www.digidesign.com/download/ptutil.html
● ExpressPro-Tools v2.3.2 or higher with Synch Transfer Rate