I have a B&W G3 Rev-2 (400Mhz, 320 RAM) with two internal 28G ATA/66 Seagate hard drives hooked into the standard ATA/33 connection in my G3 (one master and one slave) and have been using Adobe Premiere for video editing. I have found Premiere to be a bit cumbersome to use, so this last week I went all out and bought FCP and a new 60G IBM Deskstar drive to replace one of the Seagates. I left the Seagate set as master in the computer, and replaced the slave Seagate with the IBM set
to slave. The IBM has two slave modes, one for 16 heads and one for 15 heads. I set it as slave for 16 heads. The drive is not partitioned and was set up using Apple drive setup utility and I selected the Extended format. Now, since I am just learning the ropes of FCP, I thought it would be good to do the tutorial so I copied the TUTORIAL folder to the IBM drive, which I also selected as my scratch disk in FCP. The actual FCP application, as well as all other applications are on the startup drive- the 28G Seagate. After formating the IBM drive, I dragged the tutorial folder and a couple of iMovies and Premiere movies to it. When I tried to play the tutorial, I got a message telling
me I had dropped frames, and yes, virtual memory and Apple Talk are both off as is required by FCP. After trying a few times, I quit FCP and opened iMovie and tried to play one of those movies, also on the IBM drive, and I got dropped frames with it. When I moved
all the files to my Seagate startup disk, everything, including the FCP tutorial worked fine with no dropped frames. Anyone
know why this is happening? Should I set the drive to 15 heads? Should I partition it into smaller drives? Is is just a bad drive?
Any help would be great because right now I am at a loss and I would rather get some advice before I open up the computer again and start messing with the hard drive jumpers because I hate disconnecting all the cables on the back of the computer.
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