Today Pro Tools 9 decided that my 002 wasn’t something that it wanted to talk to anymore.  The last time I had loaded Pro Tools I just needed to crack an AAF, so I left the 002 off.  Now it just wasn’t talking to it at all.  It wasn’t listed in Hardware Setup, and repeated visits to Audio/MIDI Setup only allowed me to modify settings for Aggregate I/O.  After a few more minutes of standard troubleshooting bore no fruit, I decided to turn to Google for help.  So what was the answer?

Just hold down the “N” key when you launch the program, and it will automatically bring up the hardware setup and allow you to properly re-assign the 002 or any other hardware as your main choice for I/O.  That’s it!