[Avid-L2] Re: Q logic SanBox 5600 16 port fibre switch?

That's correct- remember tho, the ports on said switch are controlled by licensing, not all may work out of the box.

John's issue really sounds more like something is sending the physical drives into "park" mode.

JDS

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Jay Mahavier <jay_mahavier@...> wrote:
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> I believe that the SanBox 5600 is what Avid uses on their Unity
> systems now, so it should be fine for what you are doing.
>
> Jay
>
> On Jan 20, 2010, at 11:06 PM, John Moore wrote:
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> > Just curious about the Q logic sanbox 5600 16 port fibre switch as
> > video performance goes. The specs and lit say it's good for video.
> > Having problems on a SanMP setup when I digital cut and someone else
> > is capturing to a different drive in the array I get stalls on ouput
> > about every 6 minutes. I don't know much about san components but
> > the specs say it auto sensing up to 4.2Gb/sec. Sure seems like 2 SD
> > 1:1 streams shouldn't choke the system but the Avid seems to get
> > finicky when doing a digital cut while someone captures on another
> > system on the SanMP. Just trying to learn a little more about what
> > could be going on. I know SanMP is not ideal but it seems to have
> > been configured properly so I don't have a clue what if anything has
> > changed to cause this problem. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> >
> >
> > John Moore
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