Well check this out. The Boneheads used what I assume is Cat 4 ethernet cable to hook up my mac pro. When I changed it to a newer, I assume Cat 5 or 6, voila 1000base T. Banging my head against the wall.
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, John Moore <bigfish@...> wrote:
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> 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?
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> John Moore
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> Barking Trout Productions
>
> Studio City, CA
>
> bigfish@...
>
> --- On Fri, 8/31/12, Ross Flint <rossf@...> wrote:
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> From: Ross Flint <rossf@...>
> Subject: Re: Dual Channel Fibre Card with Unity? Dual Fibre Cards working on OS 10.5.8
> To: "John Moore" <bigfish@...>
> Date: Friday, August 31, 2012, 10:32 AM
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> 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.
>
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> Ross
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> On 31/08/2012 17:57, John Moore wrote:
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> 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. ;-)
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> John Moore
>
> Barking Trout Productions
>
> Studio City, CA
>
> bigfish@...
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>
>
> --- On Fri, 8/31/12, Ross Flint <rossf@...>
> wrote:
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> From: Ross Flint <rossf@...>
>
> Subject: Re: Dual Channel Fibre Card with Unity? Dual
> Fibre Cards working on OS 10.5.8
>
> To: "johnrobmoore" <bigfish@...>
>
> Date: Friday, August 31, 2012, 2:14 AM
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> 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
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> On 30/08/2012 19:18, johnrobmoore wrote:
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> > 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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