Repair Permissions - Actual Hard Drive or Name?

On Disk Utility. Does anyone know if it makes any difference if i click on the brand of the drive, ie hitachi, and repair, or click on the name of the drive, ie Audio or Macintosh HD etc et al... and hit repair?

No, it shouldn't make any difference unless you have 2 or more partitions. I did notice though, that your internal IDE runs at 5400 rpm. If this is correct I would strongly suggest replacing it with a standard 7200 drive. This should really be seen as a pre- requisite for Audio work.

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7200 rpm is hardly a standard for notebook hard drives. Last I checked, it's only available from one vendor, and Apple doesn't encourage users' opening the PowerBook, so the warranty is at risk. The 5400 RPM drive is the fastest available from Apple, it works fine for medium duty recording, and serious users just add a firewire hard drive.

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I used to have a 500mhz Powerbook, into which i put the Hitachi 7200 rpm drive. It worked excellently, more edits and audio tracks straight away and a real boost to its overall performance. Start up time was literally a few seconds.