When the RAID is connected to the computer the crashes happen at least every hour if not more. ATTO has also done a diagnostic on the SCSI Card and the card was fine. Mac Hollywood connected the RAID to one of their computers and they were not able to make the crash occur.
looked at the RAID again and said it was not a problem with the RAID. For 2-3 days after replacing the drives there were no crashes. Since they had no way of knowing which drive was bad we had to replace all 5 drives. who initially suggested that it was a bad drive. We have taken the computer to Mac Hollywood who gave the computer a clean bill of health. When it has happened while transferring files, the blue status bar comes to a hold.
When the crash occurs, the “busy” light on the RAID stays on and if in FCP I get the spinning beach ball. I was saving the project to my desktop.ĭragging files from a firewire drive to the RAID.ĭragging files from the RAID to a firewire drive. After naming the folder and clicking “Save” FCP froze. Whenever the system freezes up the BUSY light on the RAID is flashing. I only have problems when reading-from or writing-to the RAID. The RAID seems to be crashing the computer. I have an Utlra 320 SCSI RAID 5 by Caen Engineering (The specs on my system are below as well as a list of the software on my computer. I am running a G5 with a serial ATA 400 gig drive, a Blackmagic Decklink Extreme card and an ATTO Express PCI card.
