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Mac Pro Possessed
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Ah, my bad, David. I’ve had at least as much conversation on this problem offline as I have on; I forget which discussions have taken place where. Ideally, I’d like to do a RAID 5 so I get nearly as much space as I need, but still get redundancy.
What I should have written was, “I know I can’t do a RAID 5 internally.” We may well do a RAID 0.
Martin
2 x 2.26 Ghz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
6 GB RAM
OS 10.5.8
FCP 7.0.2
Quicktime 7.6.6
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Get a Raid card and you can. If you’re getting 4 new 2TB drives – you may as well!
Michael Cheung
Editor/Assistant Editor/DIT
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Yesterday we pulled my 3 Samsung 1TB drives and replaced them with 4 2TB Hitachi 7200rpm 32MB SATA II Deskstar drives. There’s no RAID, but each drive is partitioned in two. One partition is formatted to be my FCP startup drive and FCP is freshly installed on it. All updates are run. We also pulled the RAM and put in 6 x 2GB of OWC RAM. We then copied six of the seven external drives over to the internal, renaming everything so the internal drives now are named what the external used to be.
Before copying the seventh drive, I figured it was time to run some tests. All external drives are disconnected from the computer. I launch, I play the sequence where it lays. The clip plays, but throws up pink frames and green frames and then quickly crashes. Crash Analyzer (https://www.digitalrebellion.com/fcs_maintenance.htm) says “corrupt media,” but Corrupt Clip Finder (same link) finds none.
I run Disk Warrior — directories are pretty messy, but clean up nice. I run Disk Utility and everything appears to be fine except for the partition that is the other half of the startup drive. Steve, my tech thinks that the external hard drive that was the source for this media had a problem copying and I should erase this partition and copy again. I’ll do this eventually, but for the time being I take this one offline.
I launch FCP again. It plays briefly then crashes. Crash Analyzer says “Graphics Card / Driver Issue,” says “A common cause of issues is running Final Cut Studio on an underpowered graphics card.”
Well, I’ve got the Radeon HD 4870 sitting here in a box. I hook ‘er up, run software updates just to be sure, launch FCP and stand back. It loads the project (this takes about 10 minutes because of the size) and then announces at 100% of the load, “This project is unreadable or may be too new for this version of Final Cut.” This project crashed yesterday, but it did first launch. I start digging through the Autosave Vault to find a project file that’ll launch, but they all give me this.
So I quit, take all media and render files offline and launch again. I scroll around a little, play various parts of my long, entirely offline sequence and then, after 30 seconds or so, it crashes. Crash Analyzer says “This crash was caused by corrupt media or media that is unsupported by Final Cut Pro.” Again, there is no media online.
I want my mommy.
Martin
2 x 2.26 Ghz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
6 GB RAM
OS 10.5.8
FCP 7.0.2
Quicktime 7.6.6
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Martin,
I hate to say it, but you’re continually doing many of the same things and expecting a different result. That’s the definition of insanity…
First, as any competent person who configures NLEs will tell you, you need a much more systematic approach to the endeavor.
1) You start with the system drive, you install the OS first. Update until it tells you that your OS is up to date. Now test and make certain that the most basic setup and components work as expected. If all is good then proceed.
2) Install you new RAM. Now test and make sure all works again that the RAM is all recognized. If it does then proceed.
3) Put the other drives in, one at a time since you’re not raiding them, and test them one at a time.
Forget all the partitions and crap, that’s just a whole lot unnecessary doodoo. If your system drive is too big, just get a smaller one.
Quit over-thinking, and stop trying to reinvent the wheel. Simple is better, complicated is bad.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
EPK Colorist – UP IN THE AIR – nominated for six academy awards
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