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Chapter 4: Configuring Your Pro Tools System 27
Enabling Journaling for Audio Drives
To yield higher performance from audio drives,
enable journaling.
To enable journaling:
1 Launch the Disk Utility application, located in
Macintosh HD/Applications/Utilities.
2 Select the volume in the left column of the
Disk Utility window.
3 Select Enable Journaling in the toolbar.
Optimizing a Windows System
for Pro Tools
To ensure optimum performance with
Pro Tools LE, configure your computer before
using Pro Tools hardware and software.
Before configuring your computer, make sure
you are logged in as an Administrator for the ac-
count where you want to install Pro Tools. For
details on Administrator privileges, see your
Windows documentation.
Required Optimizations
To ensure optimum performance with
Pro Tools, configure the following settings be-
fore using Pro Tools hardware and software.
Enabling DMA
Enabling your computer's DMA (Direct Memory
Access) frees up CPU bandwidth so your com-
puter can do other Pro Tools tasks.
In most cases the DMA option will already be set
correctly, as Windows detects and activates
DMA mode by default.
To enable DMA for any IDE hard drives
(Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP):
1 Choose Start.
2 Right-click Computer (Windows 7, Windows
Vista) or My Computer (Windows XP) and choose
Manage.
3 In the left pane of Computer Management un-
der System Tools, click on Device Manager.
4 In the right pane, click the triangle
(Windows 7) or the plus (+) sign (Windows
Vista, Windows XP) next to IDE ATA/ATAPI
Controllers.
5 Double-click on an IDE Channel.
6 Click the Advanced Settings tab.
7 Under Device Properties, check the box Enable
DMA (Windows 7, Windows Vista) or under each
listed Device, set the Transfer Mode to DMA if
available (Windows XP).
8 Click OK.
9 Repeat for each IDE Channel.
For Mac System Optimization, see “Opti-
mizing a Mac System for Pro Tools” on
page 25.
When you are finished changing Windows
system settings, restart your computer.