As soon as at comes to Apple computers, troubles start for me. And today was no different. Last week I got a cheap 160Gb external harddrive, USB was broken for some reason, but Firewire works fine. Since I wanted the disk for my old G3, who just has USB 1.1 that was fine by me. I just needed it to copy my scanned images, around 1gig for 36 frames, with USB that took over half an hour, I hope Firewire 400 will be faster. Problems started with the lack of a Firewire cable, at least the local store had one in stock I could pick up.

Johannes and Johannes talking about the script
Pluged cable in both sides, fliped the power switch, and finally I heard the You-pluged-something-new-in-sound. I expected it to work, but again, I was wrong. Unless almost all USB drives I connected in the last 5 years, the Firewire Version had to be special and demanded a driver. No problem, lets look at the Maxor website. First thing I noticed: Right, Seagate bought them a while ago. Second Notice: Nice, extra section for Maxtor Products. Third Notice: Why is there no driver for my drive??
Turns out you need the CD, and if you don’t have it, you’re out of luck, no driver on the Product page. But luckily the net is smart, a completly different drive has the same driver, for Firewire at least, and when I find that driver, it can work. I found the driver, it worked and I instantly burned me a CD with that driver one – Just in case. Next time I need to scan some film, I gotta install that driver on an 7 year old G3 with OS9 – Any bets?

Me enjoying the audio lab (Note so self: Use 20mm more)
After drive chaos, it was time to go to University to met up with Johannes, our video project was coming along nicely, and today we had our syncro speaker there to dub in Bavarian. The Macs gave us again some troubles, but nothing a good reboot dosn’t fix. After that, it worked pretty well, all spoken parts recorded, and we even started with the poster/DVD cover a bit. With some luck, we should be able to finish it tomorrow. Unless the Macs screw us again.
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