Lee Berger
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I’m surprised that you are using RAID 3. My XServe came stripped as RAID 5. For a time I went with RAID 0 to get the most storage, however I returned to RAID in favor of the fault protection.
According to some quick research your problem might be that you’re running RAID 3 instead of RAID 5. RAID 3 uses a dedicated parity disk which generally acts as a performance bottleneck, especially for random writes, because it must be accessed any time anything is sent to the array. In RAID 5, write performance is improved by using distributed parity across several discs.
Obviously RAID 3 worked for you for a period of time. Perhaps as your RAID’s capacity filled, your write performance may have decreased.
If you can I suggest you back up your critical data and re stripe as RAID 5. Recently I had to re stripe and I bought a Maxtor 1TB drive for less than $600 to backup my data.
I hope this helps.
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None here.
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I would recommend composite monitoring as well if there is the potential that the product will be viewed in composite. Some graphics choices that look great in component may exhibit chroma crawl in composite. I send a signal to both the component and composite inputs of my monitor.
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After a quick search it seems as if error 120 is “directory not found.” After you exported the “by reference movie” did you change any directory names or move files? I would try the export with the “self contained” check box selected to get your project encoded and out the door.
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[walter biscardi] “That’s Windows Format. You must format with the Mac OS.”
That’s correct. But I believe most of those Maxtor drives come formatted FAT32, which mount and can be written to in OS X. That’s where people get into trouble. Even more so if they have used it as a scratch drive for a while and then have to backup a lot of media prior to reformating. Interestingly enough I just purchased a 1TB Maxtor (two 500 GB in a single external case, formated RAID 0) to backup media as I reformatted my XServe RAID. The Maxtor came unformatted. At $560.00 it’s a great backup value.
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[walter biscardi] “Sounds like your two drives have Windows formatting and won’t write larger than 2GB.”
The FAT32 file size limit is 4GB.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table
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Your external drives are probably formatted as FAT32. This is compatible with both OS X and Windows, but has a 4 GB file size limit. I suggest you try reformatting as Mac OS X Extended (but not the journaled option).
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Unlike Io, Kona shares the output connections between Composite, Component, and YC. This is an inconvenient setup as you have to change the connections as well as the setting in the control panel. If you have the Kona breakout box it is even more difficult as the connections are quite close together, requiring very small fingers or a BNC tool for connection and removal. I would go ahead and just leave your deck on as the device for transcoding between the Kona component out to the monitor’s composite in.
Lee
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Try dubbing via FireWire to another camcorder or deck in the SP mode.
Lee Berger
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