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Mac OSX crashes when firewire HDD & Sony Z1P connected
G’day guys,
Just wondering if anyone has experienced this? I’m connecting a Maxtor 250Gb firewire 400 HDD to my Mac dual G5 2Ghz and a sony Z1P video camera and my system crashes. Any ideas why this may be?
Thanks,
Phil
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2 Replies
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Try not looping things thru a device (connect each directly to a port) and make sure that the drives are formatted Mac OS Extended for starters.
Might try connecting just one at a time to see where the problem lies.
Jerry
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Good advice…
Let me ask you this? Are you trying to capture from your camera to you firewire drive thru the same buss?
If so, I bet you are getting dropped frames. If you ARE capturing from the camera to a firewire drive, they need to be on separate busses. For about $35 – 50, you can purchase a firewire adapter card to put in you edit station that will solve this problem.
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