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Since you are already using a mixer, with some clever routing, you can plug your mic(s) as well as the L/R from the computer (audio interface) into the mixer, and use either of these options to connect to the input of your audio interface: a) direct out from the mic channel b) putting a TS cable to ...

If the drive is on the FW800 bus, and you want to keep it that way, I found out that the problems go away when you buy a PCMCIA card to add another Firewire bus to the computer and put the Firepod on a separate card than the hard drive. If you don't want to do that, then connect the drive as a FW400...

Seagates are not bad now with their 5 year warranty. Pretty competitively priced too!