Greg Tiller
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Hey Randall,
How did you make out? I am too lazy to wander through another forum 😉
So far the firmware fixed my problems. I can happily report I’ve been problem free with a 4 drive WD AAKS setup for a few months now.
I am adding another 4 next week one by one. Fingers crossed…
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sure, what is your email address?
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Installed the new firmware. Fixes my problems for the most part.
The real problem is that I am using WD desktop (Caviar SE-16 aka 500AAKS) drives. These do not work well in a RAID setup.
At least the new firmware lets me use the array, and its stable. I still see a bit of freezing every now and then but at least now it recovers all the time unlike before.
Next I will be going with 4 Seagate Baracude Es.2 drives. According to HPT they work perfectly and are designed for 24/7 operation.
Greg
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Great, I look forward to it.
I found out some more info while troubleshooting:
– the card also has the same problem in XP and Vista
– the problem does not happen in RAID0, only raid5 (haven’t tested any other modes)I email HPT and will get the ball rolling on their end also, but if you could email this beta firmware when you get it I’d greatly appreciate it!
Thanks,
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Hi John,
I just purchased a 3522 myself and although I am not a Final Cut user, I am having similar problems.
I just created a 4 drive raid5 array in 10.5.4 using the driver on HPT’s website and was attempting to clone my regular partition onto the newly created riad5 using carbon copy cloner, I find that shortly after booting, when spotlight was attempting to index the file system, it would cause weird glitches.. mouse would get really fast then stop responding then back to normal, endlessly.. system becomes essentially unresponsive.
This sounds similar to your situation.. maybe not identical, but we may both be experiencing the same root cause.
Would you be willing to send me this firmware that fixes your problem? I’ll give it a try.
BTW how did you get in touch with highpoint tech? Do you have a contact to accelerate the process?
Thanks!
Greg