problem capturing video or copying large files to SCSI hard drive

[Judy Antipin]

Groucho,

I have 1.25G memory installed. The 36G scsi drive that's giving me 
problems is not partitioned at all. The factory installed internal hard 
drive (I incorrectly said it was IDE, it's ATA) is 60G and has four 
partitions, but I'm not having a problem with that drive. I should add 
that I can copy large files fine FROM the SCSI drive to the partitioned 
drive, it's copying and doing video capture with large files TO the SCSI 
drive that causes system hangs.

In response to Doyle, I've been using Adaptec controller cards for 
almost five years, with no problems on my older computers. Started with 
the 2940UW, and got 29160 a couple of years ago - installed it in my G3, 
then switched it to G4 when I bought it last February. It's listed as 
being compatible with my Quicksilver G4, I'm not in the habit of 
throwing out working hardware just because I upgrade my computer. I'm 
also reluctant to purchase another controller card without knowing that 
I'm not going to have the same problem.


Judy Antipin

>On Friday, March 14, 2003, at 07:30  PM, Judy Antipin wrote:
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>>> I'm pretty sure this is a hardware issue, since at least part of it 
>>> occurs in OS 9 as well as in OSX, but I've found no mention of it in 
>>> other forums.
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>>>  I have no problem using the drive as a scratch drive, and for video 
>>> and audio preview files, but if I try to capture beyond 10,000 frames 
>>> (about 5 minutes/400 mb) the capture freezes,
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>How much ram do you have ?
>What size partitions and how much storage free on each ?
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>groucho
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>Message-ID: <001201c2eaac$a7690f70$5a673f94 at macserver>
>From: "Doyle" <doyle at starband.net>
>Subject: Re: [G4] problem capturing video or copying large files to
> SCSI hard drive
>Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 23:37:49 -0500
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>I would think you would know better than to use Adaptec. There don't work
>for high end through put. Get youself a real SCSI card.
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>Doyle
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