Printing to Tape keeps stopping on FCP4.5

Question

I read some info on discussion board about experiencing problems when Printing-To-Tape for long projects (1 hour). FCP4.5 will stop after 26 minutes everytime I print to tape a 1 hour project. I heard something about drives stopping after a long project. How can I check this? Is there a time limit that needs to be adjusted? I've done an Audio Mixdown, but still same problem. I've watched it as it reaches that point and then freezez, then continues printing to video but without audio. Why? Can't figure it out! Please help!

Answer 1

Try again, click on the blue apple, then click on About This Mac, when the little window opens it gives some information but you want to click on the button that reads More Information, This opens the System Profiler. On the top left it should read Hardware, dirrectly under that go down to Serial-ATA and select that. The information for your hard drive should be listed on the top right and depending upon how many drives you have in your computer, you select the drives name and all the information about it will be listed down below.
You should be able to find information regarding any of your hardware here, (example) if you have any USB devices hooked in you could select USB to check that information, or if you have a Fire Wire drive, select Fire Wire, ETC.