Disc too slow...for two track recording?!

So weird issue popped up at band rehearsal last night...
Hooked up two mics to my Apogee Duet, created a stereo Aux (with compression) routed to a stereo track just record rehearsal for album preproduction
Everytime we'de get 2 minutes into a song Logic would lock up and say "Disk too slow" or "Disc too slow ro system overload"
I have run HUGE sessions in my little project studio with no issue...why can't this handle basic recording tasks? GAH!

fermusic wrote:
IS your Disc the internal System drive with at least 60GB free space? (this is required for Leopard)
Not true. Insane claim. Leopard cannot run from a startup disk smaller than 60 GB? Why do you keep repeating this nonsense, when it has been explained to you by several people, not too long ago? You keep juggling these figures, too.
Here you say it is 100 GB:http://discussions.apple.com/click.jspa?searchID=-1&messageID=7978443
Here you talk of 40%:http://discussions.apple.com/click.jspa?searchID=-1&messageID=8218690
Here it is 1/4:http://discussions.apple.com/click.jspa?searchID=-1&messageID=6840828
Here too (25 %):http://discussions.apple.com/click.jspa?searchID=-1&messageID=8018139
Here's the search I did:
http://discussions.apple.com/search.jspa?threadID=&q=%22free+space%22&objID=&dat eRange=thisyear&userID=fermusic&numResults=30&rankBy=10001
Get your facts together Ferla, or at least do not present them as facts. Because they are not.
This is not a Leopard requirement, it is another 'Ferfetched' fact, or a 'Ferversion' of the truth.
I can Run over than 64 Audio Track project on my old MacBook Black Core DUO 32bit on a USB2 2.5" HD!
Yes, and my daddy is stronger than your daddy too....

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