Losing audio on long play out to tape

FCP 4. I am playing out a 2 hour long project in two chunks onto two 63 minute Mini DV tapes on a Sony camcorder. After about 30 minutes into the first play out the audio starts coming in and out, then halfway through the second chunk it goes altogether and doesn't come back.
Any thoughts?

Hello Ned, and welcome to the Forums,
Are your media drives all nice and clean and tidy? Are they getting very full? Are they Firewire drives? 400 or 800? This sounds like the drives aren't quite able to keep up with the layoff...
One other note - have you upgraded your FCP 4 as much as it can go? IIRC FCP 4.5 HD was a free upgrade to FCP 4, and was quite a bit more stable.

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