Sync ID

[samsc]

When using the "Sync to ID#" The playback on the "synced" catalysts seems a bit "jerky" am I doing anything wrong.
Since we are using 8 catalyst to do a backwall I would really like to use it!

Bullen

which disc drives are you using?

[Bullen]

which disc drives are you using?

Lacie Big Disk 250 GB Soft Raided (Stripe) via two separate FW800 Cards (the internal one and one x-tra)

Bullen

[samsc]

Lacie Big Disk 250 GB Soft Raided (Stripe) via two separate FW800 Cards (the internal one and one x-tra)

Bullen

fw 800 isnt good.

no ide drives are great.

needs to be scsi or raptors.

[Bullen]

fw 800 isnt good.

no ide drives are great.

needs to be scsi or raptors.

The seem to work fine here!
Aren't Raptors very fragile?? I meen touring around with??

Bullen

[Chris]

Hello Bullen,

in our catalyst media servers we use two WD Raptor 74GB HD´s in RAID 0 but I didn´t find any time testing it before. May be this helps you and you can make some quick tests with only using these HD´s?

But as you know, I had also problems by using play with ID. Do you try using other ID´s than 1 for "master"? Sorry but I can´t recognize how I´ve solved the problem! Can also be that the problem was still there but I havn´t seen it in the short testing time. I´m sad that I´m not able to test it now again cause of missing G5´s ;-)

[samsc]

Hello Bullen,

in our catalyst media servers we use two WD Raptor 74GB HD´s in RAID 0 but I didn´t find any time testing it before. May be this helps you and you can make some quick tests with only using these HD´s?

But as you know, I had also problems by using play with ID. Do you try using other ID´s than 1 for "master"? Sorry but I can´t recognize how I´ve solved the problem! Can also be that the problem was still there but I havn´t seen it in the short testing time. I´m sad that I´m not able to test it now again cause of missing G5´s ;-)

it doesnt work as well if you put the os on the same disc as the media.

there is a penalty in placing the os on the raid.

you need to keep the media drives separate from the operating system.

richard

[samsc]

Hello Bullen,

in our catalyst media servers we use two WD Raptor 74GB HD´s in RAID 0 but I didn´t find any time testing it before. May be this helps you and you can make some quick tests with only using these HD´s?

Chris.

Who advised you to use Raptors?

R

[Chris]

Chris.

Who advised you to use Raptors?

R

We got our media servers from the Highend distributor in Germany and they I think got their information from Highend in London and there Hugh must be the responsable person!? It was the newest configuration suggestion at the time we bought them.
I hope that this information was right!?

[Bullen]

Hello Bullen,

in our catalyst media servers we use two WD Raptor 74GB HD´s in RAID 0 but I didn´t find any time testing it before. May be this helps you and you can make some quick tests with only using these HD´s?

But as you know, I had also problems by using play with ID. Do you try using other ID´s than 1 for "master"? Sorry but I can´t recognize how I´ve solved the problem! Can also be that the problem was still there but I havn´t seen it in the short testing time. I´m sad that I´m not able to test it now again cause of missing G5´s ;-)

Testing with the Beta, that works fine, I don't think it was a HD problem.

Bullen

[samsc]

Testing with the Beta, that works fine, I don't think it was a HD problem.

Bullen

you arent playing back enough layers at the moment to notice the hard drive issues.

The beta uses a slightly different sync algorithm.