Leopard+6.02 – success stories anyone?

[Matt Devino]

I upgraded my G4 laptop last week and my G5 desktop yesterday without problem. I installed FCP 6.0.2 before I even opened it up, checked FCP and Motion and both seem ok. No problem with the OS yet either. Although my friend bought a new MacBook and installed Leopard on it (didn’t come pre-installed because it was 2 days after Leopard was released) and his Leopard seems a lot less stable. He can’t even open imovie, it just crashes. I saw this happen at the apple store too on an Intel iMac. I guess Safari crashes a lot too. So I’m wondering if Leopard is less stable on Intel machines than PPC machines.

[Jeremy Garchow]

10.5.1 was released today which supposed to fix a myriad of weirdness.

I am probably going to get another drive and start testing soon.

I have to wait for AJA to release drivers though.

Jeremy

[John Davidson]

I put Leopard on the wife’s macbook, her mother’s macbook, and my brother’s macbook – all fine with minimal issues.

Then I put Leopard on a 2nd internal drive (now I have dual booties) and have continued to work in Tiger with an occasional foray into Leopard (I’m scared to get too used to it until it’s ‘street ready’). My RAID shows up on Leopard, but there are issues with writing to the drive with Final Cut. I’m finished with another project hopefully tomorrow, and hopefully tomorrow AJA will release the long coveted driver for Kona 2.

I think my RAID issues have something to do with running two copies of final cut with the same scratch disk. I dunno – could just be a weird issue that the update fixes. I’ll find out.

Other than that, I really like Leopard and am excited about being able to get back to my mac over the holidays for that all-too-often emergency client call whilst I’m on vacation.

OH, and sending out those scary email templates to everybody. That’ll be fun.

[Jeremy Garchow]

What Raid?

[John Davidson]

Highpoint RocketRaid 1820 (I think) with an 8 bay attachment from the DR Group.

I honestly didn’t want to mess up any files from my current FCP Tiger setup so I just opened it, got the scratch disk warning, and got outta there. Soon as the AJA drivers are in, I’ll make the real switch.

[Tneilson]

Hi Mark
I upgraded to Leopard 3 days after release. No noticeable issues with any Studio apps. I do have some QT 7.3 related issues with iWork. I haven’t done any thorough testing, just continued working on some non critical projects in Final Cut.
The route I took was — remove all traces of APE, clone drive, and upgrade ( not erase, not archive). and it worked, even my AJA Kona LSe without new drivers.

Hope this helps

Terry

MAC Pro quad 2.66, 5GB, 2x250GB, 2x750GB internal RAID, X1900, 23″ ACD, 10.5.1, FCS2(FCP 6.0.2)

[Jeremy Garchow]

For what it’s worth, I have a dual boot with FCP5 on one drive and FCP6 on another. I have setup different Scratch folders for each FCP version.

I’d check to see if rocketraid has leopard drivers/firmware updates before proceeding too far.

Jeremy

[Sean Oneil]

[John Davidson] “Highpoint RocketRaid 1820 (I think) with an 8 bay attachment from the DR Group. “

My Leopard test system has a RR 2224. Be careful about what drivers you have. Download it again today. Highpoint has released at least three different builds of “version 1.10” since Leopard was released. The first two I tried didn’t work. They don’t mention it anywhere on the website that they keep finagling with it.

[David Roth weiss]

[Sean ONeil] “they keep finagling with it.”

Okay Sean, cease and desist with the Yiddish lingo. Nobody in L.A. will ever believe you’re Jewish, it doesn’t make any difference how many Yiddish words you throw around.

David

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[Sean Oneil]

[David Roth Weiss] ”
Okay Sean, cease and desist with the Yiddish lingo. Nobody in L.A. will ever believe you’re Jewish, it doesn’t make any difference how many Yiddish words you throw around.”

LOL