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having esata problems
I’ve recently set up my system and before doing so posted many times on here to try and make sure I was getting the best equipment in my price range.
I was told that a good external to get is the Seagate Freeagent 1Tb esata/FW800 drive. I was then told by the people putting my system together that a good card for this would be the Lacie esata PCI card.
When I hook the external up via the esata, everything appears fine, I can transfer QTs which I’ve shot on my FS-100 and I can happily edit using the Seagate as my scratch disk.
My problems start when I try to export the timeline as a QT onto the Seagate.
The screen goes grey and I get an error message telling me that OSx has crashed and that I need to turn off the computer via the i/o switch.
I understand that this is some kind of kernel failiure as I’ve seen a similar post, however my problem seems slightly different from that post as I’m not losing any data when this happens.
I’ve heard that this can happen with the sonnet cards with more than 2gb of RAM, but as I mentioned I have the Lacie.
Extra info: the drive is less than 10% full and when I try and perform exactly the same function using the FW800 connection on the Seagate, everything happens as it should.
Any help or thoughts on the matter would be greatly appreciated.
Many Thanks.
aka Newbie Wan Kenewbie. “I will get over my manualaphobia, one day at a time.”
System
Mac Pro 2.8Gb quad core
8Gb RAM
1x 320Gb 7200 hardrive
1x 1Tb 7200 hardrive
Nvidia Geforce 8800 512mb Graphics card
1x 1Tb external Seagate FreeAgent eSataEquipment
Panasonic AG-HVX 200
Firestore FS-100 -
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Hi Roli
Had you installed the drivers?
(https://www.siliconimage.com/support/searchresults.aspx?pid=32&cat=3&os=3)
rafael -
Yes I’ve installed the Lacie PCI drivers
aka Newbie Wan Kenewbie. “I will get over my manualaphobia, one day at a time.”
System
Mac Pro 2.8Gb quad core
8Gb RAM
1x 320Gb 7200 hardrive
1x 1Tb 7200 hardrive
Nvidia Geforce 8800 512mb Graphics card
1x 1Tb external Seagate FreeAgent eSataEquipment
Panasonic AG-HVX 200
Firestore FS-100 -
Don’t know what to suggest you.
I’m working with the LaCie card since more than one year and not a single problem.
Rafael -
How is your drive formated? If it’s FAT 32 that could be the problem as you wouldn’t be able to export anything more than 4 gigs. I usually make sure all my drives are formated as Mac OS.
http://www.rapidlightproductions.com
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It is formatted FAT 32, but no matter how I try the drive refuses to be formatted in any of the Mac formats. As I mentioned before other people have said that this drive is a good drive to use with my setup, so I’m assuming it’s not the drives fault; but maybe that’s a false assumption?
Any suggestions?
aka Newbie Wan Kenewbie. “I will get over my manualaphobia, one day at a time.”
System
Mac Pro 2.8Gb quad core
8Gb RAM
1x 320Gb 7200 hardrive
1x 1Tb 7200 hardrive
Nvidia Geforce 8800 512mb Graphics card
1x 1Tb external Seagate FreeAgent eSataEquipment
Panasonic AG-HVX 200
Firestore FS-100 -
Hi Rol,
FAT 32 is an absolutely NO-NO for editing video with a Mac.
Look the way to format it as MacOSX extended.
Why you can not format it?
rafael -
That is most likely your problem then. You will need to reformat using MAC OS Extended. You shouldn’t have a problem doing this using Disk Utility. For some reason I sometimes need to tell Disk Utility to partition the drive and then choose 0 or 1 for the amount. Don’t ask me why.
James
http://www.rapidlightproductions.com
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Tried all of that, I’m going to try and format it on someone else’s machine and see what happens.
aka Newbie Wan Kenewbie. “I will get over my manualaphobia, one day at a time.”
System
Mac Pro 2.8Gb quad core
8Gb RAM
1x 320Gb 7200 hardrive
1x 1Tb 7200 hardrive
Nvidia Geforce 8800 512mb Graphics card
1x 1Tb external Seagate FreeAgent eSataEquipment
Panasonic AG-HVX 200
Firestore FS-100
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