playback buffer problem

hi, i have a dell laptop running pro tools 6.1 through a digi 002Rack. i thought everything was fine untill i got a few friends around and we tried to record about 4 tracks at once with a 5th track playing back. i kept getting error messages (6086 i think) it was telling me the system held off interupts for too long and to higher the buffer size. i have it at its highest setting (1024 samples) but it still happens. today it happened when i was recording just one mono track over one more stereo track playing back. i was talking to a friend and he said it was because of a common setup error and could be fixed easily with a process that i could find on this website but i cant find it anywhere. here's my system specs: dell inspiron 5150 pentium 4 3.06 GHz 80 GB hard drive 512 MBs of Ram I know with this setup it should be running perfectely so whats the problem? I dont know much about the technical side of computers thanks.......... harry

sounds like you could be having a firewire card problem. Is it a digi recommended card? Also do you have an external hd plugged in to or daisy chained to the port?

i'm using the internal system hard drive and i've been trying a few of the suggestions here and it seems to be working fine now. i just recorded about 12 tracks of audio along to one playback track. thanks

Dont forget to set your disk recording length to 10 minutes instead of open-ended.

how do i do that.

setups - preferences - Operation - open ended record allocation - limit to x minutes

I was having problems mostly with the with the -6089, but also with the -6086 and -9093 error on my IBM laptop. I changed the IDE driver from INTEL Ultra ATA driver to the Standard IDE driver in the device manager, as suggested by Digi for a cure to the -9093 error. This fixed all three errors. If you continue to have problems, I would give it a try. Just go to the ANSWERBASE and search -9093, and one of the solutions tell how to switch the IDE driver. If you don't like it, it is easy to switch back.

It reserves a much smaller amount of harddrive space for your session so the disk doesn't have to look all over the place for the files. It makes the session run more efficiently and reduces the buffer errors alot.

I'm having the same 6089 problems, however I'm running an AMD processor, so the driver solution doesn't apply, I don't think. I also tried reducing the recording allocation to 10 minutes. Still no change. Any suggestions on where to look next? Russ