Re: Firewire RAID and G4- Known ISSUES?

Hi there
I have a G4/1.42 DP/ATi9800 Pro/Igniter SDI
I'm running in the moment 4 ATA drives (80GB) internally striped as one volume.
Also I just bought a FirmTek 1VE4 with four ext SATA ports and attached one FirmTek SATA chassis with 2 250GB seagate SATA drives (not striped!). I'm booting from an ext firewire (400) drive and have 4 additional firewire drives on a firwire pci card.
I'm now on Tiger and FCP Studio (all apps)

The result: I can run DV from any drive in the system. I can run uncompressed only from the internal 4 disc raid. The SATA is starving the Igniter when striped (to much speed)
Sometimes I do loose the playing picture on the ext monitor, but I always get it back when I press option-F12 (reset video device). I don't think its hardware but rather not yet fine tuned drivers.
I never had any problems running FCP4.5 though.

BUT I just ordered a PipeStudio. Reason being is that I online my shows and I need to raise the quality of my output. Secondly the Igniter is getting old (technology wise) and The software starts to have an issue with it (or otherway round:-). Its still working but my feeling is that its getting harder and harder for Aurora to keep it alive. Thirtly I don't like SCSI raids. I find them way to expensive and quite frankly very old technology. Anyhow to get the max out of my new SATA I need a board that handles bandwith much better. I don't know if it will work, but sure hope it does.

Hope this helps
Cofe