Make sure the drives are formatted Mac HFS+. Video will not work reliably if they are formatted for both mac and windows, even if they mount. Make sure you have the computer set to never put hard drives to sleep in your preferences. (And avoid MyBooks, which ignore this setting). Make sure you never fill the drive up beyond 80%. Make sure every firewire cable is good. They can go bad. Make sure no cable is more than 14.5', Ideally much much shorter, especially if you are using multiple devices. Make sure every firewire device in the chain is on. Make sure every port is good - on the drives AND on the computer. Make sure your video is in a format your software likes. It's a lot of work, but that's the usual firewire troubleshooting list. It's rarely the drive unless you've been unplugging it or turning it off without dismounting it.
_______________________________________________________ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
