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Big problem in the Delta
I moved my system (G5 Dual 2, FCP 5) from my city office to my home in the Miss. Delta for a little undisturbed editing, but I have a problem. My external drive (250 GB EIDE in a 2 bay removable drawer box) keeps going offline everytime I open FCP. After about a minute it disappears from the desktop and I get the “Device Removed without…” message. I’ve pulled some files from the drive over to another so I could begin editing, but every time I open FCP it goes offline. Without opening FCP, the drive shows up and I can play files through QT. I have about 3 hours of logged clips and can’t drag them onto my internal drive…it’s pretty full. Any help?
Thanks,
William Bearden/Memphis -
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Are your drives daisy chained?
How are you monitoring? (through a firewire device..camera, etc)?Sounds like somethings odd in your firewire bus.
I dont think this is whats happening, but its a possilbility…The drive may be going to sleep…go into your Energy Saver preference pane and set your drives to never go to sleep.
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I’m going directly out of the Firewire bus to the removable box. I’m monitoring through a DSR 30 deck on the other bus. I am stumped.
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Thanks. I did that but it didn’t help.
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try swapping the buses and see what happens.
nick
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Wow…I’m getting some strange digital breakup on the monitor now.
Got the external drive back online but when I tried to reconnect the offline files the beach ball keeps spinning. -
You said it was an external drive…
is it a FW external case for the drive? -
It’s a 2 bay Firewire box that has removable drawers that lock into place. It has two Firewire connections in the back. I have used this box for the past couple of months. Everything was cool till I moved it.
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Maybe if you have enough room… try copying your data to an internal drive and reformat your external drives. Sometimes just moving the drives can get them a little out of sync. It’s very possible! If that doesn’t work, just try hooking your drives to the buss with your tape machine and leaving the tape machine unplugged. I know you won’t be able to monitor except for the FCP interface but its worth a shot to see if one of you firewire busses are have a problem.
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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
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[william bearden] “It’s a 2 bay Firewire box that has removable drawers that lock into place. It has two Firewire connections in the back. I have used this box for the past couple of months. Everything was cool till I moved it.”
Sounds like there might be some bad connections, either with the external cables and/or something inside the box. Moving it may have disturbed them. If possible, try re-seating all connectors and make sure they’re clean. Something called DeOxyIt from Caig might help.
Dean Sensui — http://www.HawaiiGoesFishing.com
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