[MacDV] Re: Bizarre Final Cut Pro Problem

[R B Williams]

Agreed - it sounds like a drive issue though it might be the harddrive itself rather
than the controller. Before anything else, try daisy chaining the firewire items instead
of using multiple ports on the Mac. Don't know why, but this technique has been more
reliable in our workstations with printers and harddrives too.

R.B.

Jim Hebert Photography wrote:

> I had a similar problem and had the external drive go out. I was the board
> in the drive. I bought an enclosure kit at comp usa and installed my old
> hard drive. Works just fine, actually better, and easy to do. Jim
>
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>
> Hoping one of you experts can help.
>
> Using an Emac 10.2.8, older Firewire 120GB hard drive, FCP 4.1, Canon
> XM1 (Like GL1)
>
> Up until Monday, I had no problem downloading dv to either the Emac or
> a couple older external 120GB firewire hard drives.
>
> Now - if I download 6 minutes or more to an external, I take the risk
> of having the computer's color wheel spin forever.  What is happening
> is that every so often the 900MB or so clip is downloaded as a 65 - 98
> GB clip and overloads my system.  Each time the external hard drive is
> left with 1.43GB.  I erased this external drive only 7 to 10 days ago,
> and am fairly certain it worked for downloading before Monday.  Then I
> try force quit after force quit which usually but not always works.
> After restart, I then trash the massive clip and start again but waste
> huge amounts of time.  It even happened with a shorter 4 minute clip
> once.
>
> The Emac seems to run fine otherwise except slower after each of these
> incidents.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions
> Lynn
>
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