Is Logic 911 the worst audio recorder on the planet?

Disk too slow.
I'm recording one mono audio track to a dedicated audio drive inside my Mac Pro.
Or rather I would be if Logic wasn't interrupting my recording with a "disk too slow 10004" message.
When it's not doing that it's locking up with the flashing screen error no matter what key I press.
And just for good measure it slings the dreaded burst of noise at me from time to time.
It's like paying for a slapper to beat me up.

Bee Jay wrote:
Can you record to an external drive, or a different one to the one you are currently using? Same results?
I've just wiped the audio drive and am reinstalling, it may be a fragmenting issue, even though that's a reach.
I've also swapped the FW400 cable to my FF for an 800, I had read this had solved another's 'disk too slow' issue.
I'll be Bach, as Handel once said.
I've had the odd instance of this - menus not initialising and key commands not registering, and other funkiness. Does this always happen (ie, quit Logic, reload it, then load your song - does it always load in this state? Are you sure there isn't a dialog box being displayed, perhaps off screen somewhere?
It's not a constant. For instance yesterday I was working most of the afternoon and it occurred three times. It's happened on other songs too so it's doubtful the song is corrupted. No dialogue boxes, I've been caught out by that a few times so am on the lookout for it now. I can start and stop playback from the numerical keypad (playhead doesn't move, though) but every other key including the spacebar causes the flash of doom. I've yet to see what happens if I leave it and go off for a coffee or something.
It's the cumulative effect - flashing screen of doom, sporadic blasts of noises, disk too slow. I have a simple acoustic guitar part to lay down and so far it's been two days of in the zone, out of the zone, in the zone, etc. I'm sick of the song now, and mightily sick of Logic issues to the point of downloading the Presonus One demo this morning. It's looking pretty tasty...

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