LaCie Biggest S2S

[Walter Biscardi]

What type of material are you cutting? Did you erase the unit before you started using it the first time?

We’re running two of the units here with no issues cutting 8bit SD material. One of them has been running since January and the other was installed last month. One on a G5 Dual 2.0 and the other on a G5 Quad.

We had a few issues with two units we tried to install on a new Mac Pro, but that appeared to be issues with the SATA card driver and not the actual hard drive units.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Bill Crawford]

Thanks Walter, this problem has come and gone in the time I’ve owned the array. It’s been on my list to troubleshoot for a while.

I’m cutting a pretty straight forward corporate piece. It’s 10 bit SD 4×3 video. The audio is mono narrator on one track, and nat sound on the second. Some stereo music on 3 and 4 from time to time. Again, nothing too extensive. The array is not very full – about 50%.

The bugger is that I have a LaCie 500GB FW 800 drive that I use to take projects out to do homework on, and it in the past has played the sequences just fine that the S2S hiccups on sometimes.

When I installed the unit I did do a format and erase. It’s striped as 4 drives. I checked the LaCie site suspecting it might be a SATA driver issue, but I didn’t see a file for that – just a general update for the array. I installed that, but I still have the issue. I was thinking next that I would need to re-format it again, but before I did I wanted to check around to see if there were any more ideas.

Thanks again – good to hear you have a working system. That means I’m likely just missing some small detail. Any thoughts – I’m open

Bill

[Walter Biscardi]

[Bill Crawford] “Thanks again – good to hear you have a working system. That means I’m likely just missing some small detail. Any thoughts – I’m open”

Honestly I don’t. We have two units both working fine on PCI-X systems and all I did was erase the units when they were first installed. No updates have been run on the cards or the units since they arrived.

I would definitely contact LaCie’s tech support and talk to them. I’ve dealt with LaCie for about two years now and have had nothing but good luck with both the products and their tech support.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Will Salley]

Bill,
I have had similiar issues with some of my Lacie FW800 drives, which are the FW800 extreme (500GB). After some troubleshooting (actually a lot of troubleshooting), I discovered the Firewire bridge had suffered a static shock and while it still allowed data to pass, it did the “hiccup” as you described. The other drive in the array was not affected and could pass data at around 85MB/s sustained- by itself. Of course the Firewire bridge was not cost-effective to replace but a new second drive was much cheaper than the one it replaced.

Another odd behaviour was a very high-pitched squeal eminating from the Firewire card in the Mac when the bad drive was mounted.

By the way, You can buy a Wiebetech traydock to use your old drive in, just remove from the Lacie housing and insert in the Traydock.