Tascam digital portastudio problem

Ted Russell · Post by **Ted Russell** » 19 Nov 2006 11:49 am

Last night at the gig after the first set I looked down at my Tascam DP-01FX/CD and it displayed a message something like, HDD Write Busy, Please Power Down, and nothing had been recorded. I couldn't clear the message without just shutting it down. I loaded the next "song" for the second set and the same message popped up again about midway through the next set, with nothing recorded.

Does anybody know what that is about, what caused it and how I can prevent it happening again? Thanks.

Leroy Golden · Post by **Leroy Golden** » 19 Nov 2006 3:54 pm

Sounds to me like you may possibly be trying to record too many tracks at once at a particular sample rate that is too high! I really don't know the configuration of your machine but if I try to do too much at once on my Roland VS2400CD I get a drive busy message and then an operation failed, and I have to reboot and reset the parameters for that particular song. Just a guess though!!

Ted Russell · Post by **Ted Russell** » 19 Nov 2006 7:25 pm

Hi Leroy. Thanks for the reply.

I was only recording on two of the eight tracks and there was very little on the hard drive at the time. It really wasn't anything I hadn't done a hundred times aleady. So I can't figure out what was different this time.

Larry Clark · Post by **Larry Clark** » 20 Nov 2006 9:05 am

Could be a fragmented hard drive. you might get some more definative answers here: http://www.tascamforums.com/

Ted Russell · Post by **Ted Russell** » 22 Nov 2006 5:59 pm

Larry,

Thanks for pointing me in the direction of that website! Happy Thanksgiving to you.