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  Striping FW-800 Drives as 1 RAID

  Posted by John Dehn on July 7, 2005 at 12:18 am

  Does anyone have experience in using Apple Disc Utility to stripe 2 FW-800 Drives as a single RAID in the quest for greater thru-put. I have a G4, 1.25, with 2 G-RAID 500s, and 2 Adaptec FW-800 PCI cards and an Aurora Igniter RT. Striping went without a hitch, playback in FCP looks okay, but playback through the Aurora stutters and is interspersed with black frames. Since it looks okay in the quicktime viewer, I’m starting to wonder about a conflict with the Aurora card.

  Any thoughts would be great!

  Thanks.

  -John

  Nathan Mobley replied 20 years, 10 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  Tom Matthies

  July 7, 2005 at 2:40 am

  I’m running several striped pairs of Lacie 250Gb Firewire 800 drives thru an Aja La without any problems at all. I’m controlling them by Lacie FW-800 PCI cards running in a Dual G4 1Ghz. The G4 is running OS 10.3.8 with FCP 4.5. Solid as a rock. I’m giving each drive it’s own port on the cards. None of the drives are daisy chained. It works well up to 8-bit uncompressed. I’ve not tried it with 10 bit, however.
  I’m just putting the finishing touches on a Dual 2.3 Ghz with the same setup running Tiger with FCP 5. I’ll see how that combination works in a couple of days.
  Tom
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  Peter

  July 7, 2005 at 8:20 am

  As far as I know the fw 800 is still screwed up. I was running some test the other day and the read or write was much slower I can’t remember which but one is much slower. It is the apple operating system from what I understand.
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  Nathan Mobley

  July 7, 2005 at 2:15 pm

  John,

  I have a very similar setup to Tom’s, except that I use the Blackmagic SP card and OS 10.3.9. Additionally I have put more than one drive on each Lacie firewire 800 card. My setup has been very reliable also.

  Nathan

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