slang Posted September 24, 2008 Share Posted September 24, 2008 Anyone know why Im getting this message. I feel like its my external hard drive, but dont know. Thoughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kent Sandvik Posted September 24, 2008 Share Posted September 24, 2008 Anyone know why Im getting this message. I feel like its my external hard drive, but dont know. Thoughts? -36 ioErr I/O error (bummers) Suspect issues with your external hard drive file system. If it happens a lot I would do a backup of all the stuff (move it to another hard disk), reformat/partition, move it back in and see if the newly made file system is better. Worth checking out the console output as well in case that tells something interesting. Funny, it's only with audio forums that I see old MacOS error codes, used to deal with them inside out ages ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slang Posted September 24, 2008 Author Share Posted September 24, 2008 ah yes. figured it was probably this damn lacie drive. my homie has been telling me for a while that the lacie is not a good idea. thanks for the reply Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kent Sandvik Posted September 24, 2008 Share Posted September 24, 2008 ah yes. figured it was probably this damn lacie drive. my homie has been telling me for a while that the lacie is not a good idea. thanks for the reply Lacies are OK. Most external drives, the cheap ones, have issues, that's why they are cheap, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slang Posted September 24, 2008 Author Share Posted September 24, 2008 recomendations? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kent Sandvik Posted September 24, 2008 Share Posted September 24, 2008 recomendations? Dunno. I buy cheap USB 2.0 hard disks, mostly for backup systems. But if I see a Barracuda drive inside I'm usually very happy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted September 24, 2008 Share Posted September 24, 2008 Is your external HD formated Mac OS Extended? It should be. If it isn't, back up all content (you're going to erase your hard drive) and format it using /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility. Choose Mac OS Extended (unjournaled). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kent Sandvik Posted September 24, 2008 Share Posted September 24, 2008 Is your external HD formated Mac OS Extended? It should be. If it isn't, back up all content (you're going to erase your hard drive) and format it using /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility. Choose Mac OS Extended (unjournaled). That's true, most external drives don't have HFS journaled or unjournaled file systems --worst case they have even FAT32 or something similar... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slang Posted September 24, 2008 Author Share Posted September 24, 2008 Is your external HD formated Mac OS Extended? It should be. If it isn't, back up all content (you're going to erase your hard drive) and format it using /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility. Choose Mac OS Extended (unjournaled). Ahhh, interesting. Will have to try when I get home. Thanks for the info. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slang Posted September 24, 2008 Author Share Posted September 24, 2008 Is your external HD formated Mac OS Extended? It should be. If it isn't, back up all content (you're going to erase your hard drive) and format it using /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility. Choose Mac OS Extended (unjournaled). Just read up on journaling. "If your server contains high-bandwidth usage data files, such as large video, graphics, or audio files, you may want to weigh the benefits of using journaling against the performance needed to access your data. In most cases, the impact of journaling upon data access performance are unnoticeable to users, but its implementation may not be practical for servers where data access demands outweigh its benefits." So, in choosing "unjournaled" I will be sacrificing "a feature that helps protect the file system against power outages or hardware component failures" in order to have better performance? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted September 24, 2008 Share Posted September 24, 2008 Usually you'll want to journal your system drive, not your media drives. It's up to you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slang Posted September 25, 2008 Author Share Posted September 25, 2008 Is your external HD formated Mac OS Extended? It should be. If it isn't, back up all content (you're going to erase your hard drive) and format it using /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility. Choose Mac OS Extended (unjournaled). I checked the drive and it was already formatted Mac OS Extended (unjournaled) . I cleared the disc and will start fresh, see if that works. Any other suggestions tho? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmdaugherty Posted September 25, 2008 Share Posted September 25, 2008 Glyph. Best drive I've ever used. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexy0202 Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 Hey, had the same problem - if you turn off/disconnect your drive while logic is running (even if it's not reading/writing) you will get it - the solution? Quit logic - reboot the disk, and relaunch - should work again Alex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bouncer Posted September 4, 2013 Share Posted September 4, 2013 just happened to me after electricity went off... rebooted logic and all good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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