MAC PRO KONA 3 External SATA

[Debbi Mita]

if talking about Mac Pro, your best bet is CalDigit’s S2VR HD.
Cal Digit announced Mac Pro driver long time ago and has been proved by many pros here.
https://www.caldigit.com/ENews/10-25-2006.html

Maxx digital and other companies are selling it.
https://www.maxxdigital.com/shop/product_info.php?cPath=60&products_id=367

[Nikolas T]

How many hard drives inside of your eSATA storage? If 5, you’ll need to add another 5 drives. As far as I know, only CalDigit offers eSATA storage can playback and capture uncompressed 10 bit HD.

I’ve been editing commercials with S2VR HD and Mac Pro, KONA 3 for more than 2 month.

[Walter Biscardi]

[marcus] “We were not aware our External SATA drives would not be 100% compaditable with the MAC PRO. The drives do mount and seem to work fine in Standard Def and compressed HD, but start to drop frames when dealing with Uncompress capturing.”

That’s not a Mac Pro issue. That’s a drive speed issue. Your drives are not fast enough for Uncompressed HD.

For SATA, you need a CalDigit S2VR HD or your own 8 – 10 bay hard drive array capable of 300MB/s +

For Fibre Channel, look at Ciprico.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”

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[Marcus Ionis]

Thank You Guys for Responding

The External SATA drives are 8drives RAID 0 with 3.2TB of Storage from PROMAX. These drives were before used on POWERPC G5 Dual 2 with 4gig of RAM and using the KONA2 card 3.2 version of drivers. The system could capture and output feature length 1080i 29.97 at 10bit Uncompress with no problems. When we upgraded to the MACPRO and the KONA3, we hooked up the same External SATA RAID and started to have dropped frames on capture.

We then borrowed a FIBRE ARRAY with 16drives with 500gigs Striped RAID 0 and a APPLE FIBRE CHANNEL PCI EXPRESS CARD. We capture 2min worth of 1080i 29.97 DVCPROHD but crashed when we tried capturing 8/10bit Uncompress.

My question is why and how do I fix this.
Could I ever use these drives from PROMAX on the MACPRO and perform the above task?

Thank You Again for Your Help

Marcus

[Jeremy Garchow]

[marcus] “The External SATA drives are 8drives RAID 0 with 3.2TB of Storage from PROMAX.”

What kind of SATA controller card? DId you update to a PCIe version with related drivers?

Does the card even have universal binary drivers?

Jeremy

[Marcus Ionis]

RocketRAID 2320 with the MAC drivers vs1.03 from https://www.highpoint-tech.com/
These drivers are for the MAC PRO 10.4.8

Hope this is helpfull

Marcus

[Jeremy Garchow]

It’s listed as compatible with MacPros. Did you set up your PCI slots appropriately? There’s a read me file that comes with Kona drivers. Make sure you follow the directions there.

Jeremy

[Vman06830]

We are using CalDigit’s solution… and HEY! It runs with Mac Pro.

You will need a SATA card:
https://www.caldigit.com/FASTA-4e.asp

If your current drives aren’t fast enough, CalDigit has a offers an awesome storage solution:
https://www.caldigit.com/S2VRHD.asp

Their 5-drive RAID solution is about 30MB/s – 50MB/s faster than any other solution. This gives you safer margin to do the editing.

You don’t have to pay any extra for the SATA card because its included, the price is pretty sweet. You should check it out.

[Marcus Ionis]

Thank You Vman06830, Jeremy G and others for the recommendation of CalDigit.
Just want to confirm if you have been able to capture 10bit Uncompress with out a hitch, if not please explain.

Thank You Again for Your Help & Professional Service

Marcus Ionis

[Jeremy Newmark]

Marcus,

If you are using PROMAX drives, then you should give them a call. They should be able to get you configured properly.