Fred Jodry
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Jean, did you have time to ask your friend?
Thanks Anders, that exact web page has not shown up yet but I will keep trying different times and ways. -
Not in my opinion, Justin. Although the total number of viewers is way- down (speaking for the USA) those who are watching, both at home and in the movie theatre (watching in the theatre has gone up mentionable amounts) are expecting much better picture fidelity than what the cat dragged in the door with line screen color displays, saticon or cheap examples of chip cameras, and of course, color- under video tape, or DVDs made from this. Even on the computer`s intake, moving pictures have gone from bad to poor, so you can settle for stills. We used to watch Flipper, Dondi, and Romper Room in better picture and sound quality than the average viewer`s show is now. And you are way- right about the viewers being blind to the distorted and slitted aspect ratios. I am Broadcaster so I think of making my own shows in poor quality as slashing my own wrists. I just wish it were easier.
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Although it is quite tedious I would say that zeroing out the test hard drive freshly each time (Try preparing it with a full zero- out of data the first time, then zero out the first 300 MB and last 100 MB on the drive should be good for each switching places test) and trying it in each place of all 8 drives in the box, even the good ones should be good testing.
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Here a number 6, really it`s a repeat so just do it after.
6. The problem might be one of usually two, voltages going through a power plug to one or more hard drives. Jam wires in the plugs, run the box a while, then check with a good voltmeter if one of the voltages went sour 2 percent. I had a power molex socket on a favorite scsi hard drive that needed soldering. I shined a small copper ribbon and soldered a nice bridge. -
Some things to try:
1. Aim a fan at the controller card.
2. Aim a fan at the problem hard drives. (If this works it`ll buy you time).
3. Get the data backed off in short sessions then see if the RAID box still has enough performance with 4 drives not 8.
4. Get the data backed off in short sessions then see if re-arranging the 8 drives and performing a full zero- out and reformatting fixes a data or other problem.
5. Since the problem might be one drive alone, get one replacement hard drive and zero it out before trying it in each drive`s place. Since you are working with a really big RAID it`s probably set up with redundant data not pure RAID 0. (Step 5 usually works better than step 4). You can ask on this forum how exact the replacement hard drive has to be. -
That, or have them all show their problems on video and audio and post them on the Reels topic. We need computer entertainment!
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Might be 4 hard drives getting aggravated by an overheating problem. Also might be that one of the voltages from the power supplies of both the failing box and the test box is sagging 2 percent, or less. It also might be that there is a piece of really freaky data on one of those 4 hard drives. All 8 drives have been labelled by their formatting so you can switch cables willy- nilly and their labelling will probably stay the same. Replacing the 4 drives and shelving the originals for only the crude purposes sounds like a good idea. Also, enough people in the forum have had trouble with a HighPoint RAID card. Other than that, make a new neutrodyne coil with a Grinan angle in your Stanwyck coil winder with a Faraday shield next to it. That`ll do it.
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Thanks, Jean. My model is a ¨PowerPC G3 333 MHz 1 MB cache, model M4405¨, a minitower (that is, 3 each pci) that got hit with the champagne bottle and shoved into salty sea on, 30 Nov. 1998. The serial number can be part of private mail or e- mail. If your friend is in the Montreal area then meeting me and friends at Near-Fest at the end of this month is equally far (or near) between us. It has an Amateur Radioists and Broadcasters convention.
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This is a GUESS:
on each machine try using one display card instead of the two, and consider the two display monitors (or utter outputs) to be fed by, as, one fed by the display card, and the other, fed by the LHi. It sounds lopsided but seems to me I have heard it as correct, at least for editing. Since it is a guess, go back if it is wrong. -
Aidan, I am not familiar with using the ARRI but here is what I do on my Bell and Howell.
1. Before loading the film I reach the dry old gears with the spray nozzle of WD-40 lubricant and give a quick spray, then roll the gears a bit.
2. I use sensible (not full) spring tension. The crank can stay in the winder.
3. The trigger tapping mechanism is deluxe, a solenoid, a number 6 dry cell (or rechargable) cell, and a telegraph key.
4. Set up your ¨matte box¨ (lens bellows) nicely. No use making amateur quality pictures.