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Firewire drive unmounting during render
I am having problems with a firewire drive unmounting in the middle of a 6 hour render. I haven’t had this problem in the past and wondered if anyone else has experienced this. I have 6 external firewire drives on a hub. I thought this was the problem so I moved the files to another drive and plugged that drive directly into the front firewire port. This drive then dropped during render. And the only drive that is dropping is the drive that has the AE and source files on it. I am sending the rendered file to another drive. Anyone have any suggestions or similar experiences?
I am running a dual 2.7 gHz G5 with 4 gigs of ram, 10.4.1 and AE 6.5.1. I don’t believe I had this problem with Panther, perhaps it’s an OS thing with AE.
Suzanne
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I had a similar problem with a drive that spontaneously unmounted itself, although my problem was not limited to when I was rendering. It turned out the problem was a defective power supply – the little power “transformer” that plugs into the wall, and the drive plugs into it. Try switching your power supply with one of the drives you know for sure has no problem. I’d be interested to hear the outcome – let us know.
tam
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I would consider that an option except that I also had the same problem with a second drive that I just purchased two days ago (a LaCie 400gb) and it just happened with it when I rendered a file. I did talk to Apple who said that I perhaps had too many drives attached to one port. I disproved that theory when the same thing happened with the new drive attached directly to the front port – it dismounted too.
I am now rendering from an internal serial ATA drive and so far am having no problems. I am now considering getting a SATA controller PCI card and drives since my firewire drives are not the reliable solution that I have been used to.
I do appreciate your response. I had thought something was wrong with that one drive until I moved all my files to the second drive and had the same problem. If I discover a solution I will repost.
Suzanne
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My company used to use LaCie drives almost exclusively. Lately we’ve had a lot of problems with them. I’d be curious to know whether the drives giving you problems are also LaCie.
tam
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The first drive to dismount is an OWC Mercury with which I have never had a problem, and the second drive I tried was a LaCie 400gb, brand new.
Suzanne
MaD Studio
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