Sean Oneil
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Another editor here has been using it for over a month. His Tiger system disk failed. Rather than install everything twice, we just went ahead and did Leopard.
It’s definitely not faster. But it’s worked out pretty well. It’s a hell of a lot more stable than FCP 6.01 on Tiger was.
But, I’ve been told by someone much smarter than me that under the hood, Leopard is a bit of a disaster and that nobody should start using it until 10.5.2 is out.
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I don’t think software RAID-1 and RAID-0 eat up very much CPU.
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[Saddler] “Oh, one more question too; if I get the driver to let Windows see my FC card, is there any way to get windows to recognize a software RAID, because my X-Serve RAID is two RAID-5s striped together with software using RAID-0? “
MacDrive supposedly supports Apple software RAID. I’ve never tried it myself but it’s supposed to work.
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Sounds like a bug. Try using nested sequences for the VHS clips.
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By the way. The Apple RAID card is a lousy deal. Nobody here uses it I don’t think. Check the banner ads on the left. Much better products.
What is this for anyways? You have an Xserve RAID so what do you need an internal RAID-5 for? I’m just curious.
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[Saddler] “1. Is it possible to make this array the boot installation?
2. Can Windows be installed on a partition of the aforementioned RAID-5 array using Boot Camp?
3. Will Windows be able to see my X-Serve RAID-50 array via the fibre channel card?
4. Will there be any slot arrangement issues with installing an 8800 GT graphics card, a Kona 3 capture card, the RAID card, and the fibre channel card? I had read somewhere that the raid card required moving the graphics card to a slower slot or something like that.”
1. Bad idea. System disk and media disk should not be the same. Software RAID-5 for a system disk is also a bad idea. FYI there are two extra SATA ports on a Mac Pro’s motherboard. You can mount drives 5 and 6 in the optical bay with a cheap kit. Just a warning though, Boot Camp doesn’t recognize these two extra ports.
2. 99% certain, no. No way. Don’t even try it.
3. If there are Windows drivers for your card then yes it can work. LSI makes the Apple FC card. Google the topic and find someone who’s done it. You’ll need MacDrive software to use HFS+ drives in Windows.
4. Two of those cards will be limited to x4 lane. For the Kona that doesn’t matter. For the FC or RAID card it will probably cause a bottleneck.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Hampster has been working in 5.1.4 on Leopard and it won’t open. Nothing to do with 6. “
[Hampster] “This also happened to a friend of mine runing FCP 6 on Leopard.”
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[Nate Stephens] “A great review of the ATI Radeon HD3870 from a “gammers” perspective. If you look at the pictures in the article They state at the bottom “embargo” somebody does not like that card in the US of A. “
Check Newegg. There’s over twenty models of ATI 38xx cards available. Not sure what this embargo you’re talking about is. The new Nvidia 9000 series is also about to come out. We probably wont’ see Apple versions for a long time. New Apple graphic cards are usually “last generation” and they are massively overpriced. It’s always been that way.
Strangedogs.com is a website of enthusiasts who figure out how to make PC graphic cards work on a Mac. I don’t know much about it, but I guess certain cards are known to work (or not work) if you flash it with Mac firmware. I wish I heard about it before I spent $400 on an Apple X1900 a few months ago.
The whole PCIe 2.0 thing. PCIe 2.0 is backward compatible. I guess it’s possible Apple won’t support older cards in the new Macs. Other than that, there’s no reason older cards won’t work.
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If you have a project that was created in FCP 5, and you try to open it with FCP 6 on a Leopard system, then it doesn’t work for some people.
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I spoke with XML genius Andreas Kiel earlier today. I guess someone just hired him to solve this exact issue. He said the project won’t work on any version of FCP when the OS is Leopard. But it will work fine on Tiger. I would try that before anything else.