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Drives not detecting
Hello,
I am working on FCP 4.0 on a G4 machine. For last 2 days I am facing a severe problem, Ive a Maxtor 300 GB firewire drives. It is not detecting.So what I do I then take it to G5 machine, play ther clips for 10 minutes. And later I connect it to back 2 G4 then it works. If I shutdown and restart the next daythe G4, the same drive don’t detect.
Any solution for this.
Regards
Minto
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5 Replies
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Do you have other firewire devices connected besides your deck or camera?
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How long have you used the drives without cleaning them? If it’s been a while, the drives could be badly fragmented or corrupted and the best solution is to erase them and put your media back on the drives. Generally you want to completely clean off your drives as often as possible and I try to do this after every project.
If you have any extra drives, move the material from the Maxtor to that, erase the Maxtor, then move the media back.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Creative Genius, Biscardi Creative Media
https://www.biscardicreative.comNow in Production, “The Rough Cut,” https://www.theroughcutmovie.com
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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Could be one of many things I think. A bad cable, a bad port, or even the FW bus could need resetting inside the Mac that doesn’t seem to want to mount the drive. Might try resetting the PMU switch on your G4. It’s a button found on the motherboard usually near the battery. You need to be disconnected from power altogether to reset this. Just open the enclosure, and push the button, wait a few seconds and all power management inside the mac gets reset. I’ve seen this do wonders for FW ports.
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer
Author: “Jerry Hofmann on Final Cut Pro 4” Click here
Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D
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MInto,
I have the exact same Maxtor drive behaving exactly the same way between the exact same computers! I’m thinking either Walt’s and/or Jerry’s solutions are good to try.
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I’ve found that a lot of FireWire drives get corrupted by people not unmounting their drives before disconnecting them. I do this every time before shutting down or when swapping drives. Most novices do not do this, because they don’t know they need to. If you unmount drives before disconnecting them, you’ll never fry your b-tree. A fried b-tree can usually be salvaged with Disk Warrior–but not always. Re-initializing is often the only thing you can do. This means you’ll have to recapture your stuff is all.
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
fcpworld.com
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