Dropped frames with fast raid in 6 but not 5.1.4

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Dropped frames with fast raid in 6 but not 5.1.4

Posted by Simon Blackledge on July 10, 2007 at 8:21 am

Anyone else getting dropped frames on capture with FCP6 where they never did with FCP 5.1.4?

We have a raid able to do 450MB/s and seemed fine in 5.1.4. Now on fcp6 and we get dropped frames after about 2>3 mins.

Also I could do 3 streams of 720P60 10bit layers in timline but now even 2 stremas reports slow disks in FCP6 ?

Anyone shed any light?

Cheers

P

Simon Blackledge replied 18 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 9 Replies
9 Replies

Jerry Hofmann
July 10, 2007 at 12:19 pm

Try a clean install of the startup disk if you didn’t do that when you went to FCS 2.

Jerry
Simon Blackledge
July 11, 2007 at 7:55 am

Were capturing from xbox360 at 720P 59.94 uncompressed 8bit.

MacPro
4gig
ati1900

10.4.10
Clean install of FCS2 then upgraded to latest versions, including BM drivers.

HBA slot 4
BM HD Extreme slot 3
empty slot 2
ATI1900 slot 1

Expansion slot utility option 2 selected

Raid is 8disk sata with highpoint card. AJA disk test rates at 450 MB/s when empty. 3.2TB (8x500gig @ raid5) Now have 1.6TB free and still tests at 360 MB/s
AJA graph does show spikes though :-/

Everyone else fine running FCS2 then ?

Any ideas Walter?

thanks
Si
Walter Biscardi
July 11, 2007 at 8:55 am

[pennello] “Everyone else fine running FCS2 then ?

Any ideas Walter?”

I would look at the drivers of the storage array and your BMD card myself. Other than that I really don’t have any suggestions.

We have three FCS2 systems running perfectly fine over here, though we run all AJA products on our systems.

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Simon Blackledge
July 11, 2007 at 10:12 am

Thanks Walter. I’m going to swap the BM and HBA around. Suggested by Highpoint.

Have you tried a Caldigit HDPRO ?

Cheers

Si
Walter Biscardi
July 12, 2007 at 12:07 am

[pennello] ”
Have you tried a Caldigit HDPRO ?”

Nope, won’t use their products anymore.

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Simon Blackledge
July 12, 2007 at 7:09 pm

How come? :-/

what do you suggest for upto 2k read write on a macpro ?
Walter Biscardi
July 12, 2007 at 7:34 pm

[pennello] “How come?”

Bad reliability issues here.

[pennello] “what do you suggest for upto 2k read write on a macpro ?”

Sonnett Fusion F800 (8bay), MaxxDigital ProAVIO (8bay), Ciprico, Facilis. We’re testing Dulce units right now, but I don’t think they’re fast enough for 2k. Uncompressed HD sure, but not 2K.

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Simon Blackledge
July 12, 2007 at 8:21 pm

Thanks Walter. much appreciated. We have a proavio/enhance 8ML infiniband but I think the highpoint 2322 is giving us issues.

Thanks for the info.

s
Simon Blackledge
July 12, 2007 at 8:28 pm

Also intresting how Dulce don’t show the graph with the AJA test.. :-/

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