• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Capture Freezes to Xserve Raid

  Posted by Cknall on February 26, 2007 at 3:38 pm

  I have a Mac Pro 3.0Ghz, 8 gb ram, OS 10.4.8. I have one side of the raid with 7 drives stripped to raid level 5 journaled. Connected via fiber channel. I’m capturing from Beta SP that is converted to SDI with embedded audio and into the Decklink Extreme PCIe card on the latest driver. I have FCP 5.1.2. The issue is when I have it set to capture to the Xserve raid, the image freezes but audio continues on. There are times that it actually freezes so long it actually throws a “locating time code” error on the capture window. I put the xserve raid drives into privacy of spotlight and that seem to help, but not completely.

  Now if I set these to my 3 internal drives that are stripped as a raid, it doesn’t have that problem at all.

  Thanks,
  Chris

  Earthworm replied 19 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Lee Berger

  February 26, 2007 at 4:36 pm

  One thing is that you shouldn’t have your media drives journaled. Journaling can decrease performance.
  Here is an Apple article on optimal XServe RAID settings
  https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302780
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  Earthworm

  February 26, 2007 at 6:53 pm

  I had a similar problem. The fix for me was disabling the host cache flushing in the xRAID admin.

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