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capturing problems on xraid
When capturing to the xraid lately, it will only take about 25-30 seconds of footage before displaying a timecode break error message and aborting the capture. It does this consistently from betacam and dvcam sources. I can capture with no problem to a backup LaCie drive. Any ideas?
Rick
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4 Replies
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Does this happen on every tape? Also, how many drives to you have striped together into each RAID, and how much space is avaliable? Sometimes the RAID will slow down if more tham 60-70% of its space is taken up. I don’t know why it would tell you there was a time code break (it should give you a dropped frame error). I’ve never had this problem during capture, but had significant problems on export when the RAID was close to being filled.
Best,
Ben
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Have you updated your firmware and/or your Raid Admin tools. I did recently when I upgraded to Tiger and FCP 5 and had a similar problem. I’m not at my Mac right now, but I think this is the link that solved the problem for me.
https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=32483
It seems that the default setting is “on.” You will want to turn it “off.”
By the way… anytime you restart your raid, you will have to uncheck it again.Hope this helped.
postman -
Just got to work, looked in Raid Admin and dicovered that I was almost right. In Raid Admin look under settings/performance…uncheck the “Allow Host Cache Flushing.” That should do the trick!
postman
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Postman, you’re right on the money. Thank you! Now, another question: The raid was just recently changed from RAID0 to RAID5 and I’m noticing that when playing back, the playback chokes and reports dropped frames. The RAID size since changing to RAID5 is 2.18TB and I’ve got 1.88TB free. Any thoughts?
Rick
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