Crashes when Firewire Drives are mounted

Question

For some reason now Logic crashes (hangs...not responding) when i boot Logic with my one firewire drive mounted. When i unmount the drive and then boot Logic it works fine. THen i re mount it and open my project.
Is there a fix for this?

Answer 1

Here's what I think is going on...
You wrote:
If i boot logic and then mount the drive it works fine.
Logic keeps a file (somewhere) that remembers the most recently opened songs/projects. I think this file is corrupt. I have no idea what the file is called, where it's located, but I think it's corrupt. Bascially, when you launch Logic but the drive to which a recent song isn't mounted/not available, that song will disappear from Logic's recent song list. But I have the feeling that Logic hasn't totally forgotten about the existence of that song. So when the drive is mounted and Logic loads up, it might just be trying to find the drive where the song lives but something gets screwy in the process.
Here's what I suggest:
a) quit Logic if it's running
b) mount the drive
c) copy the entire project to your internal HD
d) launch Logic
e) open the song from your HD
f) if this works without crashing, re-save the project to your FW drive under a new name
g) go to Logic's recent song list and count the number of songs in the list. Let's say it's 20 songs in the list...
h) hold option for one second and create a NEW song (this will be Logic's "default" song)
i) save it to your FW drive as a simple song (not project) called "a"
j) now save it 20 more times, changing the name each time, i.e., "b", "c", etc. What you're attempting to do is completely clear Logic's recent song list of all previous song titles with something known to be "benign"
k) re-load your real song as saved to your FW drive in step F above
l) if this works, quit Logic without saving
m) re-boot the computer
n) make sure the FW drive is mounted
o) launch Logic and load the song from step F from the FW drive
If all that works, then I think my theory is right about the recent file list being corrupt.
If it doesn't work, well, [Elmer Fudd = ON] I twied and I twied...