Controller/drive recommendations for an old sawtooth machine

[Empathy]

Hey there,

So I'm still running into a recurring problem on my old sawtooth machine with clicks and pops, and I'm thinking I might try to install a second ATA controller card in order to dedicate a drive on its own bus for audio.

Am I barking up the wrong tree here? Does anyone have any specific recommendations?

Here are my specs:
G4 AGP graphics chassis
OWC 1.4Ghz processor upgrade
1 GB RAM
OS X Tiger (10.4.11)
DP 4.61

[MIDI Life Crisis]

You can try that, but the likely source of the noise is the clock. Pricey little suckers too!

[Empathy]

You can try that, but the likely source of the noise is the clock. Pricey little suckers too!

I'm guessing you mean my audio clock master? I'd agree with you, if I hadn't been using the same exact 828mk1 as my clock source under OS9 with nary a problem.

Now that you mention it, I DO seem to have the occasional crash, and the last few lines in the log tend to be something akin to "unknown firewire device". Maybe it's a bug in Tiger's implementation of Firewire...