*Mobile* Setup

[YangZone at aol.com]

Ok. Thanks, got some info there for my TiBook 800, FCP 3.0.4, 7,200 120GB FW drive. 

 Seems the system and apps should be on the internal drive and media gets captured straight to the (dedicated) FW  drive which would have a partition for each extra project. (Older cameras might be problematic.)

So it would appear that dedicating the two drives to closely related tasks is the key to avoiding dropped frames i.e. in response to input, while the heads in the internal drive are busy sending and receiving instructions from the system and FCP to and from the CPU, those same heads are relieved to have the heads in the FW drive perform the task of writing and reading to and from media files... something like that. 

Thanks again,

PJ