Recording Audio to External Drive

Hi, trying to record to an external firewire drive, seagate 7200 rpm, 16 mb cache. Recording 1 track 41.7k, 24 bit. About every 30-45 sec or so i get a hiccup in the recording. I monitored with the system performance window & the i/o section spikes when this happens. I've tried adjusting the buffer size, with no luck. I can record to the internal hd without any problems at all. Does anyone no how to fix this, or should I return the drive and get another brand?

select your drive in question - make sure ignore ownership is not checked and check that u have the fllowing permissions set:
You Can : Read & Write
Owner : You (Or your computer name)
Access : Read & Write
Group : You (Or your computer name)
Access : Read & Write
Others : Read & Write
after u have set thos - if they were not set already hit : Apply to enclosed items
now repari your disk permissions and restart....
1)when logic has booted after the restart go to "Audio COnfiguration" and delete the record path...
2) set the record path to your new drive and see if it has been fixed...
If not - do u have many firewire devices hanging on the bus???

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