BFD is making bursts of White Noise on my Mac!!
Please Note: This only applies to BFD previous to version 1.5.45 ‘J’, which has a workaround. Update to to 1.5.45 at least first! BFD users running Mac OS X should ensure that they have disabled all Energy Saver options in the System Preferences. If your Mac goes to Sleep, using either “Put my hard disks to sleep” or “Put my computer to sleep” options, the system file cache can become corrupt. This is a system cache, and is outside BFD’s control – the problem survives clearing BFD’s cache buffers or restarting the BFD disk streaming engine, removing and reinserting BFD, or rebooting your your host application. Only a full reboot of your Mac will clear the system file I/O cache fully. OS X 10.4.6 addressed some Energy Saver issues, but the white noise fault still appears at present. Solution: Open System Preferences, go to the Energy Saver panel, and DISABLE (untick) “Put My Hard Disks To Sleep” and “Put My Computer To Sleep Whenever Possible”. Another factor is if you are using a self-installed internal SATA or IDE drive, check that the drive is Mac Compatible. Not all hard drives are, and can lead to random white noise bursts. BFD pushes your I/O sub system hard, and is “good” at finding incompatibilities.
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