Just found an interesting glitch in my ethernet. Ethernet 1 the facility network with internet shows up as 100baseT in the advanced tab Ethernet. Ethernet 2 for our unity shows up as `1000 base T. This is my edit mac pro. Now both the edit mac pro and my mbp are fed from the same ethernet switch that is 1000baseT gigabit and my mbp shows 1000 baseT. I even tried swapping the ethernet cables between the two at the switch and mbp is still 1000baseT and mac pro 100baseT. I also took the switch out of the loop but no change. If I manually set ethernet 1 to 1000baseT as opposed to automatic the connection seems to be broken. Very strange. Anybody got any ideas?
John Moore
Barking Trout Productions
Studio City, CA
bigfish@pacbell.net
--- On Fri, 8/31/12, Ross Flint <rossf@onsight.co.uk> wrote:
From: Ross Flint <rossf@onsight.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Dual Channel Fibre Card with Unity? Dual Fibre Cards working on OS 10.5.8
To: "John Moore" <bigfish@pacbell.net>
Date: Friday, August 31, 2012, 10:32 AM
There isn't any way to save the text
from a verbose startup as such, but I think most of it ends up in
either the kernel log or console message (which you can find in
Console - in /Applications/Utilities/ if you aren't familiar with
it). The kernel log is filed under /private/var/log. I have also
resorted to taking photos of things like that in the past.
My laptop reports "DSMOS has arrived" around the same time that it
is waking up my network adaptors, but DSMOS is apparently some
form of copy protection (and stands for "Don't Steal Mac OS X"
according to the internet) - so that is unlikely to be relevant.
After configuring the network adaptors, my laptop appears to begin
launching various third party extensions, which would probably
include Unity and SanMP in your case. If you look at the logs
from a successful boot you should be able to see what it does
next, which might provide some clues.
As far as setting firmware settings on the fibre card goes, there
is probably a management utility that you can get from the
manufacturer.
Ross
On 31/08/2012 17:57, John Moore wrote:
I remember back on
an old symphony meridian on an Compact EVO computer when
we hooked a promax fibre array I had to wait for the
computer to boot before plugging in the array. I disabled
the fibre bios from loading and it fixed the problem
there. I don't recall exactly how I disabled the bios
loading but it was probably holdin F8 during boot or was
it F12. Well I ran the command +V and it stops stall
after the two ethernets are loaded it says on is 1 gig and
the other is 100mbit. I wonder if that is why or ethernet
unity is so slow. In between the two ethernet loading
prompts, EN1 and EN0 IIRC, there is something about DMOS
or some such acronym. Is there a way to save the verbose
text to analyze later? Fun stuff makes me long for my
freshman year at Berkeley flipping the front panel
switches on a PDP 11/10. ;-)
John Moore
Barking Trout Productions
Studio City, CA
bigfish@pacbell.net
--- On Fri, 8/31/12, Ross Flint <rossf@onsight.co.uk>
wrote:
From: Ross Flint <rossf@onsight.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Dual Channel Fibre Card with Unity? Dual
Fibre Cards working on OS 10.5.8
To: "johnrobmoore" <bigfish@pacbell.net>
Date: Friday, August 31, 2012, 2:14 AM
HI John,
For problems like that, I'd usually start by repairing
permissions - it
could well be some sort of conflict that occurs when a
kext tries to
wake up or deal with those drives. If that doesn't
fix it, you can try
starting up with command-v held down, which puts the
Mac in verbose
mode. That replaces the uninformative white screen
with a text readout
telling you what the computer is doing as it starts
up, which should
tell you exactly what it is trying to do when it gets
stuck.
Occasionally you even get a helpful error message that
tells you why
it's not working. Of course, if the hang is occurring
before the
machine starts to boot an OS then none of that will
help.
In that case, I'd have a look at the hardware settings
on the fibre
card. There might be something in there that is
causing issues (similar
to the way that enabling the Boot BIOS on ATTO's SCSI
cards upsets HP
workstations).
I hope that helps,
Ross
On 30/08/2012 19:18, johnrobmoore wrote:
> Thanks for the info. Nice to know a dual port
fibre card works too. On my online system I have
always had to pull the fibre to the SanMP to boot up
otherwise it just hangs with the grey screen and
spinning sprocket wheel. Other systems on SanMP don't
do this. Don't know what it is but the same thing
seemed to happen when we put a second fibre card on a
couple of the machine room MacPro Avids. We can live
with that for now but if you have any suggestions what
might be causing the hang I'll pass on the info to the
tech. I do know you can hold down option when booting
and it will show the potential startup drives with the
fibre connected IIRC. We were initially thinking it
was trying to boot to a fibre drive on the SanMP but
there are no startup drives out there. Hmmmmm
>
> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com,
Ross Flint <rossf@...> wrote:
>> Hi John,
>>
>> I once set up a couple of Macs with
simultaneous connections to Unity
>> and a SanMP fibre volume. I used ATTO
Celerity FC-42ES cards and just
>> used one port for each SAN, which worked
fine.
>> As far as the slots go, I think the Expansion
Slot Utility only existed
>> in the first model of Mac Pro (the 2007
model). In later models the
>> slots have fixed widths. In theory, all that
should matter is ensuring
>> that each card is given enough bandwidth to
do its thing. Since the
>> Celerity cards are only 4x cards they should
be happy in any slot
>> (except under certain configurations in the
2007 model where you could
>> have a slot at x1 or x2) - I'd imagine that
the Ellipse card would be
>> the same, although I don't have any
experience of those. It is possible
>> for drivers to conflict which might be the
reason why you are having
>> trouble using the two cards together - if you
have to disconnect the
>> SanMP volume to get the Mac to boot then it
sounds like something is a
>> bit unhappy as this is not normal.
>> I don't think I've ever put two fibre cards
in the same Mac, but you
>> should definitely be able to see all the
installed cards in the the "PCI
>> Cards" section of System Profiler.
>>
>> Ross
>>
>>
>> On 30/08/2012 01:38, johnrobmoore wrote:
>>> Okay so far we seem to have good news. We
added a Atto Celerity to a
>>> MacPro OS 10.5.8 that had an SNS Storage
Network Solutions Ellipse FC
>>> card for our SanMP. The Ellipse card is
in the Top Slot 4 position.
>>> The Celerity FC 41-ES is in Slot 3. It
seems we have to disconnect the
>>> SanMP Fibre to start up which is
something I do everyday on my SNDX
>>> MacPro. Once it boots up we can run fibre
manager and SanMP and whoa
>>> nelly is it a lot faster than the half
fibre half ethernet transfers.
>>> Funny thing on 3 different MacPros we
found the Ellipse card in 4,3&2.
>>> So much for symmetry. I guess the various
slots don't matter like they
>>> use to or is this something that is
addressed in the Lane Assignment
>>> utility. I haven't futzed with that since
I was working with Kona
>>> cards. Can someone confirm if the various
slots don't matter but the
>>> lane assignments do. I always here about
proper slot configuration
>>> usually related to PCs but I always
thought that mattered on Macs too.
>>> Funny thing when we installed the extra
card on the first station when
>>> checking in system profiler under
Fibrechannel it only lists the Atto
>>> in Domain 1. This happened on the second
computer we tried too but it
>>> said Atto on Domain 0. Neither computer
showed the Ellipse Card in the
>>> system profiler. A computer without a
second fibre card did list the
>>> Ellipse card as domain 0 and that card
was in slot 2. So far it's
>>> working. Does anybody know if system
profiler is incapable of listing
>>> more than one fibre device?.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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