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

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--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Dom Q. Silverio" <domqsilverio@...> wrote:
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> The other chassis is likely the fail over for the File Manager. If the
> PortServer is shot that can be replaced without touching the File
> Manager or client stations. You just need to re-image the PortServer
> and do the proper network configuration.
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> Dom Q. Silverio
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> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 3:28 PM, johnrobmoore <bigfish@...> wrote:
> > 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.
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> > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Dom Q. Silverio" <domqsilverio@> wrote:
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> >> 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?
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> >> 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.
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> >> Do this until you figure out which hardware is causing the issue.
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> >> Dom Q. Silverio
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> >> 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.
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> >> > John Moore
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