[John Couture]

Hey Jeremy,

Still no dice. I followed all your steps to shut down, disconnect peripherals, reconnect and restart my computer. I also reset my scratch disk to only my internal disk (instead of the the external firewire). And still it can’t read my deck.

Any other ideas? I’m stumped.

Thanks,

John

[John Couture]

Oh, yeah. I know about Short Circuit. That’s what my screen-name is based on. I just hadn’t seen that music video.

I gotta run, but I’ll try your last take when I’m back in the office Wed. A.M. It wasn’t letting me set it to internal last I tried, but I’ll work with it again.

Thanks.

[John Couture]

Hey Jeremy,

Sweet link! Never seen that one before. Thanks.

Well, I did what you said and when FCP first launched, it still wasn’t able to read the deck on launch. From there, I wasn’t able to go into the setup, however, because since one hard drive is down, I only have one internal drive and an external firewire that was set for capture scratch. Since you said to disconnect that, FCP wouldn’t launch all the way because I couldn’t set my install hard drive for the capture scratch and the external was disconnected, as you suggested.

Regardless, it didn’t read the deck when it first launched, so I think that didn’t do the trick.

Frustrating…

[John Couture]

Thanks for the tip, but I did try there. I have the latest version of QT and trashing those QT receipts didn’t help.

[John Couture]

Jerry,

Many thanks for the hard drive test site. Looks like it’s filled with great info and will help me decide. And thanks to your article about how to achieve a rock-solid FCP system. I got straight from it when setting up my workstations.

John

[John Couture]

Sweet. Thanks for the input.

[John Couture]

Hey Jeremy,

Thanks so much for the reply. I appreciate it. So, if I can’t afford to get the whole setup you mentioned right at this moment, can I take a similar approach as you describled, but use separate internal drives, named and set up identically identically on both computers, then use the SATA drive to transport any new/changed files between the two? Right now, I’ve almost got similar internal hard drive situations on both computers, so buying one more drive to match the other computer would give me pretty identical systems storage-wise. I figure for the short term, having idential systems in both locations frequently updated would help alleviate any possible data-loss issues RAIDs can help with, and the portable files should be able connect with no problem since everything is named the same. That sound right?

But I would like to build up to the system you described, so I’ll hold onto your reccos as well.

Regards,

John

P.S. — I’ll do my best to stop my beach bum computer from hitting the surf in the future.

[John Couture]

Cool. Thanks!

I’ll give it a shot.

[John Couture]

Vincent,

Thanks so much for responding. I appreciate it.

I don’t have enough drives to do the configuration you mentioned. I keep my application and source media on one drive, then my scratch disk on a separate drive.

I tried the edit/purge you suggested, but it was greyed out, so I couldn’t select it during normal PS operaitons or during a crop.

I did restart PS after I reset the scratch disk, but I still get the errors — on two computers now. And both of them have plenty of scratch space, so I have no idea what’s up. Any more ideas?

Thanks,

John

[John Couture]

Thanks very much for the help. It worked!

John