[Avid-L2] Re: Older Unity Lanshare Portserver?

Judging by this list I'd have to guess that it is the media manager that is the problem since the other two chassis are labeled. I was originally told they restarted the port server to bring the system up two days ago and that's where the memory error message came from. At that time the system was working but as I said earlier after trying new ram and now mobo it doesn't boot. Is the media manager something that can be replaced without major reconfiguration or is it the road map to all the media. Just trying to learn what I can while the techs sort this out.

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "James Hoppe" <james.hoppe@...> wrote:
>
> The other chassis is probably media manager. That sounds similar to our
> Unity configuration:
>
> 2x Array chassis (mirrored)
> 2x File Managers (mirrored)
> 1x Media Manager
> 1x Portserver
> 1x Fiber switch
> 1x Gig-E
>
> The only boards in our PortServer box are a Fiber card and a Gig-E.
> Personally, I would try what Dom suggests and pull as much as possible from
> the chassis, then re-install things until it STOPS booting. Also making
> sure everything is properly seated of course!
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "johnrobmoore" <bigfish@...>
> To: <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 3:28 PM
> Subject: [Avid-L2] Re: Older Unity Lanshare Portserver?
>
>
> It could be a standard Unity so I've been told. It has a JBOD a file
> manager chassis, a port server chassis and another unlabeled chassis in a
> half rack. Assuming that is what it is can the entire portserver be shot
> gunned without requiring massive reconfiguration to work on our system. As
> you can tell my experience is more with other sans so please forgive my
> basic questions.
>
> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Dom Q. Silverio" <domqsilverio@> wrote:
> >
> > I am not familiar with older LANShares. I did not know they had an
> > external PortServer.
> > Are you sure that is just a standard Unity?
> >
> > Second, maybe it is not the mobo or RAM sticks. It could be one of the
> > PCI cards. I would pull out all RAM sticks except for one and all PCI
> > cards. Boot up. Place one RAM stick and boot.
> >
> > Do this until you figure out which hardware is causing the issue.
> >
> >
> >
> > Dom Q. Silverio
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 2:49 PM, John Moore <bigfish@> wrote:
> > > We're having problems with the Unity Portserver on our lanshare that is
> used primarily for project sharing over ethernet. They've swapped ram and I
> believe the mother board but now it won't boot. At first they restarted the
> port server and even though it gave a memory error it did work but now after
> replacing ram and then the motherboard it won't boot. I'm just curious if a
> totally different port server that works can plug right in without
> disturbing what's already stored on the unity. I see we have two chassis
> labeled port servers, can there be two on a system or is one a spare?
> There's tech support working but we've been down two days with this and I'd
> like to help make a somewhat informed decision.
> > >
> > >
> > > John Moore
> > >
> > > Barking Trout Productions
> > >
> > > Studio City, CA
> > >
> > > bigfish@
> > >
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> > >
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