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Duel Systems Adapter… no joy for Macs
Received the Duel Systems adapter today that plugs into the MacBook Pro and allows you to read P2 cards.
First disappointment: it only works with Os X 10.4.8! All shipping Macs have 10.4.9 on them so you cannot use it until they write a new driver. Naturally, they’re working on it, but have no idea when.
Second, I read somewhere that we still need a new P2 driver from Panasonic for the Intel based Mac laptops. Does anyone know where I can get that driver? Jan?
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mi***@****************ns.comApple Certified Trainer: Final Cut Pro 5
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Mine card should be here tomorrow and I’m in the same boat with the MacBook Pro! I start a 12 episode series on Monday and really would like to use the Duel card to download to the raid instead of the P2 Store. So what do we do?
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What kind of raid are you recording to? an eSATA? If so which one are you using and how do you like it?
Good luck with the series!
Stan Timek
Pollywog Theater
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Sorry to use this thread to discuss other issues.
We are using a Sans Digital MS2UB (FW800) to hold all the P2 footage. We bought about 60 trays and 60 500 GB Drives (500 is the best current price point)
It’s great because it’s set up as a raid 1 and mirrors the files to both drives.
We then give one drive to the editor who uses a Sans Digital MS1UT (eSATA) to dump the footage to the MR5CT1 3TB Raid (eSATA). We vault the other drive in the event of corrupt data.
So far it has been great. It really seems to be reliable and the price was as good as anything we found.
Check out the site. You can buy the gear on newegg.com and save a bundle. Tiger Direct has the best price on Seagate 7200.9 500GB SATA Drives.
https://www.sansdigital.com/mobilesilver.html
Back to original issue. If I can’t bet this duel card to work, downloading the cards to the P2 store and then to the raid will just add another step and slow us down a little more!
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[redrock] “Mine card should be here tomorrow and I’m in the same boat with the MacBook Pro! I start a 12 episode series on Monday and really would like to use the Duel card to download to the raid instead of the P2 Store. So what do we do?”
Today I went back to 10.4.8 and it works. There are reports that once it’s installed you can upgrade to 10.4.9, but I haven’t tried this…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.comApple Certified Trainer: Final Cut Pro 5
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For now I am surviving using the P2 Store as the card reader. It’s still pretty quick. I got a message back from duel saying that they were working around the clock to create a driver/fix but hadn’t come up with one yet. They will post it on their web site support paeg as soon as it’s ready.
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