Vegas misbehaving...again. SoFo please respond

BillyBoy wrote on 12/30/2002, 12:52 PM

This is starting to get frustrating. Again, I tried to take a removable drive from one PC to another to render and Vegas keeps complaining it can't write the file. I'm not new to doing this having done it EXACTLY this way dozens of times.

There are no permission problems, the file isn't marked as read only. No other application on either PC has a problem only Vegas. I have over 125GB free and only rendering a file that should be about 10GB. Five minutes before it worked fine. I stopped the render to make a last minute change, and now Vegas refues to write anything to the removable drive.

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craftech wrote on 1/3/2003, 3:01 PM

Bill,
Which motherboard and revision do you have on each?
When the computer crashed, did it change the clock's date? If so, did you reset it?

Again, If you could list your hardware for the troubled computer it would help. I've been stabbing in the dark, but at least I have guessed correctly at the OS and ATA controller so far. Still makes it difficult to guess at the rest of it.

John

Al S wrote on 1/3/2003, 6:31 PM

Another $.02 worth -
I have seen really odd things cause problems, totally unrelated. Bad USB device. Bad modem. Bad video. (All should be unrelated but has happened.) Try a different IDE cable? Wouldn't be the first time I have seen a flakey, almost brand new drive. Even happens now with SCSI drives, and it nothing used to be wrong with SCSI's! Blame it on low margins, low prices, inadequate testing procedures. One out of 40 drives is bad out of the box or within a week for us.
Also, don't forget all the devices in your system are built to "tolerances". Lean all the tolerances one way or the other and presto - problems.
Only way to eliminate the drive is to replace it - bet the problem goes away. Even if you have to go direct to the mfg for the warranty. One reason to go with IBM SCSI's - 5 year (!) warranty.