Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Recycling old unitys

I looked at doing this with our old Lanshare EX - however further research
led me to believe the specific storage controller(s) in the that model at
least only supported up to 750GB drives, As it has 16x250GB currently for a
~3TB storage pool it hardly seemed worth putting expensive 750GB drives in
it for a ~9TB unit.

I believe I installed OpenFiler or FreeNAS on it - I can't remember which -
but whatever I used it had no trouble recognising the existing hardware and
disks.

Dylan Reeve
http://dylanreeve.com/


On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 9:56 PM, Christopher Lowden <
christopher@fearlesstv.com> wrote:

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>
>
> To be honest, I don't understand either. Better still, if add a 'normal'
> disk into the unity, it does not work. If i add a bit copied disk, even one
> larger than the others in the raid, it works and it makes the raid bigger
> !! That seems completely illogical.
>
> I analysed a unity disk on a linux machine and it showed a small hidden
> partition that seemed to have control info. Maybe this is untrue.
>
> This morning, I then thought, what stops me installing a unity OS on a 3rd
> party raid box, like that mentioned by Rupert, and using it on ethernet.
> There must be a restriction but I can't think what.
>
> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "johnrobmoore" <bigfish@...> wrote:
> >
> > What do you use to copy the drives, "bit by bit." I remember in my rt-11
> days I could clone floppy disks with the copy command (don't remember the
> exact syntex) and it was a bit for bit copy. How do you do a bit for bit
> copy from drives of different capacity? It sounds like it must not be a
> firmware if a bit for bit copy works that seems to imply that it would be a
> control script on the drive itself. Does that make sense or am I
> misunderstanding what a control script is in this application?
> >
> > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Christopher Lowden" <christopher@>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > Thanks for the replies. I have done a few tests, cloning bit by bit
> the existing tired disks with new ones becuase I was told that the disks
> are optimised with either firmware or a control script. Surprisingly, the
> drive set rebuilt perfectly and I am not encountering any problems .... as
> yet. I have moved the raid from 250gig disks to 1 terrabyte and it all
> mounts, which seems extremely strange.
> > > The unity is solid tech and I am no IT person so I prefer to keep the
> beasts alive.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Agustin Goya" <agustingoya@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I remember reading that if you replace all avid drives with non-avid
> drives and all have the same specs Unity should be able to see them.
> > > >
> > > > Sent from my phone
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Christopher Lowden
> > > > Sent: 19/07/2012 09:25:25
> > > > Subject: [Avid-L2] Recycling old unitys
> > > >
> > > > Hello
> > > > I have old unitys that have served great cause of editing for many
> years and are no longer covered by avid. I have to decommission them, and I
> would like them to have a second life as intranet servers. But I know that
> the Avid disks etc are non standard. So I was wondering how to render these
> very useful boxes into simple SAN / NAS where I can put off the shelf disks
> in, not the avid ones.
> > > > Any thoughts are most welcome.
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
>
>


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