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  Kernel Panic-Due to Raid Tower Compatibility?

  Posted by Bill Paris on April 23, 2011 at 7:00 pm

  I purchased my edit system via PROMAX:
  Mac Pro with Dual quad 3ghz Intels
  Kona 3 Card
  and a 5 TB SATAMAX Raid that consists of two towers with 5 drive bays (500 gig per)

  The other day the power supply on one of my 5 TB SATAMAX Raid towers died…..what to do? I call Promax and they were very helpful….. they told me the SATAMAX drive enclosure is now disconitued, but the Sonnet esata 5 bay enclosure would work. I did a rush order since I’m in the middle of a project and installed the drives in the new enclosure…. so far so good. I started having issues in FCP …. jerky video… audio out of sync…. then the curtain of death aka Kernal Panics started when I was transferring a jpeg from a DVD.

  When all the drives are disconnected I don’t have any issues, but the system is crashing whenever I have both towers plugged in together. I downloaded the latest driver from Sonnet for the PCIe card (Tempo Esata e4P), but I’m still getting kernel panics when the raid is connected.

  I’m thinking there’s a compatibility issue between the two different enclosures?

  Any ideas?

  Thanks!

  Bill Paris
  Producer/Director of Photography
  Crew Hawaii Television
  https://www.crewhawaii.com

  Bill Paris
  Producer/Director of Photography
  Crew Hawaii Television
  http://www.crewhawaii.com

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