>I was thinking about the Firemax 2 card that will do firewire & SCSI
>acceleration, combining that with a single drive (4 maybe 8 gig). I'm
>trying to postpone an expensive heavy-duty array till I get something like
>an MCXpress. Unfortunately I was told by a sales person at Promax that
>there are unresolved issues re. the built-in SCSI acceleration on the
>Firemax 2 and he advised against using it that way. Any comments?
Which 9500 motherboard did you upgrade with a G3? 120, 133, 150 or 200
MHz?
Early 9500's are a beast of their own. If you got corruption it could be
the G3 upgrade or who knows ? G3 upgrades work sometime and sometimes
they don't.
I would suggest you consider a 9 GB Wide Drive (40+ minutes) - 4 GB
drives will hold 20 minutes.
I would advise at going with caution since any video solution including a
FireMAX-2 may or may not work without a bit of tinkering anyway.
A G3 with 1 or 2 16.8 GB EIDE drives plus the boot drive is the best
combintion that will work and give you plenty of headroom. By the time
you equip a 9500 to work properly you could spend nearly as much as new
G3.
Thanks,
Charles F. McConathy
President, ProMax Systems, Inc., Irvine, Calif.
Digital Video Editing Turnkey Systems - Data Storage Specialist
Web Sites: http://www.promax.com and http://www.firemax-dv.com