Hi all.
Quicksilver 2002, 867MHz, 1.5GB, 10.4.6, 120GB OSX and 600GB RAID
I'm editing a huge video project. I have two matched 300Gb drives that I've created a striped array from in disk utility, with 256KB blocks, because it's video. 20 hours of DV.
I've placed the drives on the primary i/f, set to cable select, on a Quicksilver G4 which does have large drive support. When copying from the OS X drive, which is on the secondary i/f with the superdrive - it works slowly there, but I just need fast video - the RAID array occasionally reports that it hasn't been properly put away, and dismounts.
I figure the solution to this is to buy a P-ATA IDE PCI card, put the OS X drive back on the motherboard primary i/f and put each of the 300s on its own channel of the P-ATA card.
However, there are four or five on the market and they all look the same. Soooo, bearing in mind what I am doing, and my limited indie filmmaker budget, which would you recommend? Or does anyone have a spare one they'd like to sell me?
Dave
http://www.plasticuser.com
Quicksilver 2002, 867MHz, 1.5GB, 10.4.6, 120GB OSX and 600GB RAID
I'm editing a huge video project. I have two matched 300Gb drives that I've created a striped array from in disk utility, with 256KB blocks, because it's video. 20 hours of DV.
I've placed the drives on the primary i/f, set to cable select, on a Quicksilver G4 which does have large drive support. When copying from the OS X drive, which is on the secondary i/f with the superdrive - it works slowly there, but I just need fast video - the RAID array occasionally reports that it hasn't been properly put away, and dismounts.
I figure the solution to this is to buy a P-ATA IDE PCI card, put the OS X drive back on the motherboard primary i/f and put each of the 300s on its own channel of the P-ATA card.
However, there are four or five on the market and they all look the same. Soooo, bearing in mind what I am doing, and my limited indie filmmaker budget, which would you recommend? Or does anyone have a spare one they'd like to sell me?
Dave
http://www.plasticuser.com