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FCP quits and ejects external hardrive
Hello I have a G5, (0SX) and I am using 2- Western Digital Book external hard drives.
The second external hard drive, daisy chained to the main external hard drive using a firewire 800, was ejected from my desktop when FCP (Studio) unexpectedly quit. (The one directly connected to G5 still shows up on desktop)I am not sure how to remount the hard drive. What is the safest way to troubleshoot? (I have quite a bit of footage that I would not like to loose)
Thank you
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5 Replies
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Very odd behavior. To remount your drive open your Disc Utility (Applications/Utilities).
Using a RAID 1 drive would give you a safe editing environment. That is not possible with your external hard drives. You would need to purchase.
Get yourself DiskWarrior to keep your drives healthy and in case of drive failure.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Board of Directors
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group -
It’s probably the other way around, your hard drive ejected, then FCP unexpectedly quit.
Sound like your hard drive might be going caput, or perhaps the power supply.
Jeremy
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Daisy chaining those book drives has been a problem for many people. Even having 2 plugged into different ports have exhibited the behavior you’re talking about. Try making sure they’re mac formatted (although if they’re not you’ll have to clear them off to remedy that) and non-journaled. Although the latter is really not an issue.
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Hello –Thank you for your responses–
What are the chances that the footage is lost since drive ejected on its own like this?
It should be fine if I shut down computer and change the power supply and try to remount it by going to disk utilty? Correct?
I just want to make sure I dont loose the footage I captured on that drive.Thank you
CA
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Hi Thank you for your help…what do you think about this kind of external hardrive with two drives (for back up)–CalDigit VR 1.28TB – 720531
Or are external hard drives a bad idea, how ever good the quality?
Thanks again
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