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10.3.9 Crash -SATA Raid and Flip 4 Mac
I’m a freelance FCP editor and know FCP very well. One of my clients has updated his dual 2.0 G5 to 10.3.9. I had tried to use Flip 4 Mac from wiithin FCP export and it crashed, every time I tried it. So after some rebooting I went and trashed the FCP preferences and repaired permissions. After the next reboot, the machine wouldn’t come back!!! It would start, then give us the gray screen “Reboot your machine now”! The only way to get the machine back was to disconnect the SATA cables he has hooked up, via a Sonnet card.
First off, Flip4Mac is trashed and won’t work at all anymore. I can get it to export from Quicktime, but it makes corrupt files that are 24 hours long! Not sure, but I think it’s a 10.3.9 issue because it worked fine before. We make Quicktimes and Windows Media files of finished peices for the web. I have to now take the Quicktime and use a PC to make AVI files in the Windows Media codec, with Premiere.
Most importantly, the raid will not mount anymmore and we can’t figure out why! Haven’t tried a different PCI port, but why would that change. After I’m doing working on another project, I am going to try using Disk Warrior on the raid to see if it will come back.
Any suggestions comments would be greatly appriciated.
Thanks alot,
Matt James
Freelance FCP Editor
Pe********@*ol.com
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I would strongly suggest re-installing OS 10.3 from the original disks using the “Archive and Install” option. This will retain all your applications and prefs, but replace the OS. Then install the Mac OS 10.3.8 combo updater.
I’m willing to bet that Flip 4 Mac and possibly the SATA raid are not approved for 10.3.9 yet.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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I have FCP 4.5 running under 10.3.9, but I’ve lost access to my Medea RAID. I think I’ll be doing the OS reinstall shortly…
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I’m having a ton of problems myself with my SATA RAID. I didn’t think it was 10.3.9 thought and starting having smaller problems prior to the update. I’m quickly starting to think that people at Sonnet are a bunch of hacks.
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FWIW, I called one of my colleagues who was on the floor at NAB and he went over to the Medea booth to ask them about 10.3.9 incompatibility. They basically said, Yep, we’re working on that. So it’s back to 10.3.8 for me!
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I was having problems FCP not launching, Safari locking up the computer (first time in over a year), dock weirdness as well. A co-worker gave me a copy of ‘Pacifist’ which updates prebinding. Probably the same as what you can do though the terminal.
Anyway, updating prebinding information seems to have done the trick.
Apple says you can do the same through the terminal:
– start Applications/Utiities/Terminal and type
sudo update_prebinding -root / -force
and press return, you’ll have to enter your password. When it has finished, reboot your computer.
Apple document: 93984
Final Cut Pro HD won’t open or unexpectedly quits after a Software Update
https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93984pxlmvr
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