Not much action on the OSX forum so thought I'd try here, especially since the KP's have increased.
I've had this computer for 6 months and up till now it's run flawless, handled a massive FCP ProRes, 5TB storage including SataMax combined with FW800 storage project without much incident.
Finally wrapped up all projects so decided to install Snow Leopard and FCP7, ran Disk Warrior prior to install and would of run just after for except my first KP happened as Snow Leopard was finishing it's install but before I could restart. Ran DW again, I'm using ver 4.2 of which was upgraded from 4.0. Another KP after running DW and before I upgraded to FCP7. I turned off my MXO2 and crossed my fingers, finally got FCP7 upgraded. Then uninstalled MX02 and reinstalled to be safe. Ran DW again and when I restarted the system the SataMax would not appear till I restarted. launched FCP7 and was working till I got another KP, so ran DW again, and system is up, for now.
My Mac days go back to pre SE20 and never had this many problems. I'm more of an editor than a technoid so appreciate any thoughts or other trouble shooting tips.
Another KP as I was launching FCP. Turned off my SataMax and launched FCP without problem. Me thinks I need to look into my SataMax Driver? How do I find out if the driver needs to be updated, I can't even find who makes the dang thing, nothing listed in about this computer, where do I look, what do I do?
Michael Harrington
Mac Pro, Dual Quad-Core Intel Xeon 2.66 GHz, 12 GB, ATI Radeon HD 4870, 30-inch Cine Display, 4TB internal, 1.25TB Esata, Numerous FW 800 external drives, MX02Max, FSI 17" Broadcast Monitor, Mackie 1402 & Event 20/20 monitors.
Re: Too Many KP's by Jerry Hofmann on Nov 21, 2009 at 11:14:53 pm
KP's are usually hardware issues and the SataMax was sold to you by somebody right? so go to the manufacturer's website and download drivers for Snow Leopard if they have them.
Jerry
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8-Core 3.0 Intel Mac Pro, Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D, AJA Io HD, 17" MBP, Matrox MXO, CD's
Re: Too Many KP's by Michael Gissing on Nov 21, 2009 at 11:38:13 pm
Why not buy a new system drive and do a clean install, keeping the old drive to go back to if problems occur? The forum has been littered with tragedy stories from people trying to install both OS & FCS3 over an older version.
I didn't realize installing Snow Leopard and FCS 3 was such a problem and planned to do a clean install later on and did the update install to check it out before I begin 2 weeks of travel. Installing all the software is a pain but no way around it.
Thanks for the recommendations.
Michael Harrington
Mac Pro, Dual Quad-Core Intel Xeon 2.66 GHz, 12 GB, ATI Radeon HD 4870, 30-inch Cine Display, 4TB internal, 1.25TB Esata, Numerous FW 800 external drives, MX02Max, FSI 17" Broadcast Monitor, Mackie 1402 & Event 20/20 monitors.
