All --

I have been tranferring tracks from my ADATs (as well as using my ADATs as A/D converters) for the last couple of years, with generally stellar results after a slightly bumpy beginning.

Now, I have a new system, easily ten times as powerful as the last (1.4GHz Athlon, 256MB RAM, (2) IBM 75GXP 7200RPM IDE HDs, Frontier Design Dakota, etc.).

And the dropouts are back. They occur about every 12 minutes, and they take the form of the first eight tracks dropping for about 125 milliseconds and then the second eight tracks dropping in an identical fashion about a second later. It makes a predictable pattern

I *know* that it's not my hard drive, since I can activate all inputs in Vegas and *watch* the input LEDs in Vegas disappear for a split second 12 minutes or so, even when I'm not recording!

The Dakota is set to get clock from the master ADAT's optical out. The Dakota control panel indicates no slippage in sync.

Anyone with a similar setup have any ideas?

Thanks in advance,
Carl