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File I/O Error in FCP – Drives failing – Media Lost
Recently we have had several drives that have somehow become corrupt and then lose media (not all the media, only media that had been recently created or modified). At first I thought it was the drives themselves failing. Some were Lacie D2 quadra’s, others were G-Technology G-Raid2’s. It then dawned on me that all these drives were failing while being used on one system in particular (dual 2.5ghz G5, 2 gb ram). It happened again today and I lost several hours of freshly digitized footage. While working in FCP 6 I got a sudden “File I/O Error” while routinely saving the project. This has happened before, and I am able to still save the project to the internal drive, but it always foreshadows trouble. After quitting FCP, and repairing disk permissions in hopes that this might help, I re-opened the project to find that all my media was offline, and in fact missing from the drive altogether. Neither DiskWarrior, TechTool Pro, nor Disk Utility were able to salvage the media, though they all reported errors on the drive. My thought is that maybe it is not the drives, but the computer, or the firewire port on the CPU that is the source of the problem. I reformatted the hard drive tonight and reinstalled the OS and all the software, and am hoping this will solve my problems. The only FW800 port on the CPU is the built in bus, and the computer reported no diagnostic errors with it.
Has anyone else experienced anything similar to this?
It is easy to simply blame the external firewire drives, but I am hoping to find another cause of the issue, rather than lose trust in FW drives altogether.Ackerman
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Yikes. I am getting a file I/O error when I try to render. From reading your post, I’m am really really worried. If I lost all my captured footage it would set me back many many days of work.
I’m on MAC OS X, dual 2 GHz G5, 4 GB ram . . . using FCP6, and maxtor hard drives.
Can anyone help us?
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