I gave up on Protools for now. But, since my Digidesign 002 hardware and 2 firewire hard drives seemed to be working well on my old Windows XP computer, I decidided to install PTPA on that machine and wonders of all wonders it works great. PTPA recognizes
the Digi 002 and allows me to use either of the external firewire drives as my recording medium.
Thanks,
DVJ