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Garageband and Snow Leopard disk too slow errors

Since i installed Snow Leopard on my Imac (24", 4GB, 2,4 Ghz.) i get the 'disk too slow' error many times, even if i have two or three simultaneous tracks running. That's ridiculous. On Leopard i never had any problems. I record on an external harddrive connected by firewire 800 and i use an edirol FA66 as an external sounddevice. I already set the recording settings for making the most tracks (i never had to do that on Leopard). Is there anybody else having these problems since Snow Leopard?

Imac 24" mid 2007, Powerbook G4 12", Mac OS X (10.6.1)

Posted on Oct 15, 2009 2:06 PM

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Feb 1, 2010 12:51 PM in response to Topopardo

The problem is not over yet.. I bought Logic express 9 and i still have the error message. I changed the recording directory to the internal harddrive, that seems to help. But i especially bought a FW800 external harddrive for recording my projects.... the harddrive capacity on my imac is not endless....
I suspect the FW drivers have something to do with this problem...
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beckwith

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Mar 15, 2010 11:27 AM in response to HombreLobo

I got this for the first time last night. I wasn't doing anything different from what I've normally done in Garageband, except maybe utilizing a couple more tracks (total was about 11, with only three unmuted).

I was recording with a Blue Snowball (USB) on my new 15" MBP and monitoring with headphones when all of a sudden this huge blast of white noise came screaming through the phones and I actually had to throw them off cause it was so loud. Scared the crap out of me. Then when I looked at the screen, it had the "Disk too slow" error message on it.

Jun 9, 2010 9:28 AM in response to philgreg

I had the exact same thing happen last night. Set up for a podcast and got the disk too slow error about 5 minutes in and clicked continue. Showed that it was still recording. Hit pause about 45 minutes in because my mic started sounding robotic and 42 minutes of recording disappeared. STrangest thing ever. Lost some really good recording. I at least feel better that it's not just me, but it still stinks. I never had this problem with garageband before. I even upgraded to a 7200 rpm drive a while back. Hope they figure this out.

Garageband and Snow Leopard disk too slow errors