[MacDV] Re: 200GB firewire drives

[Robert Schoenburg]

First, I sent an e-mail  to Western Digital describing the problem. No
answer yet. Assuming you have a lot of space on the external drive, you will
need to copy non-essential data from the internal to the external. My 60 GB
internal drive has about 15 GB free space right now. After capturing video
on the internal, I move  the project to the external.

If you have DVD projects on the internal, move them to the external.

> My Sony DV cam is on the approved list.  My huge problem is my media and
> the cut of my movie are residing on the external.  Unless I clear about
> 8 gigs on my internal so I can put my project on my internal drive I
> don't seem to have a way to get my movie to tape.
> 
> My internal drive can hold 18gig of storage. I only have 5 gig
> available.  I need to transfer 7 gigs to the external hard drive.  That
> leaves 6 gigs I can leave on my internal.  Any suggestions on what to
> transfer?  I have my OS 10 software discs.
> 
> On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 11:28  PM, Robert Schoenburg wrote:
> 
>> I have the same drive with the same problem. Is your Sony on the
>> "approved"
>> list? My Panasonic PV DV951 is not. It works fine if I capture to the
>> iMac
>> internal drive and it works fine exporting from the internal drive, but
>> not
>> to or from the Western Digital. So my workaround is to use the Western
>> Digital for storage and to work on iMovie/iDVD projects.
>> 
>>> Paul,
>>> I just bought the Western Dig 200gig FW EHD.  It's very buggy.  Maybe I
>>> got a bad one.  It won't let me export to tape.  It also shuts down
>>> inexplicably leaving me with a nasty message.  Example:  I was
>>> copying a
>>> file from my internal HD to the EHD. My DV camera (Sony TRV20) was in
>>> the EHD's 2nd port.  I opened the camera to eject the tape (this had
>>> nothing to do with the operation going on - I removed no cables and
>>> didn't turn the power to anything on or off) the EHD unmounted from my
>>> desk top and displayed the nasty note.
>>> 
>>> ALL:  I missed what apparently was a discussion on the 200 gig drives.
>>> Why won't the WD drive support export back to tape?  It will export the
>>> stills I have embedded in the show but not the digitial video.  The
>>> unit
>>> writes and read back and forth from my internal hard disc fine.
>>> Bad drive?  I'm going to return it as soon as I get my movie and media
>>> off it.  I hope QT isn't the best I can do.
>>> 
>>> ALSO:  When I export to QT for compact disc I'm not getting all the
>>> audio tracks.  Am I doing something wrong?
>>> 
>>> thanks
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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