This IS the Avid L2: [Avid-L2] Re: Now: MC to Symphony upgrade

For revenue producing systems, this is unwise.
Testbed, go nuts, but if it's your bread and butter, you are an idiot to run them on the same boot drive.

JDS

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Robert Ferguson <robertf@...> wrote:
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> I have clients running MC, FCS and Adobe CS of the same boot drive with no problems. MC is software only and FCP/CS use Kona LHe.
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> Other systems run MC with Nitris DX or Mojo DX and FCS/CS without IO with no problems.
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> I used to go for dual boot back when FCS was being updated regularly and often required a matching OS upgrade as well. Back then Avid was slower to qualify OS upgrades.
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> I have one system with a Matrox Mini that does not play nice going between MC and After Effects.
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> Robert
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> On Nov 5, 2011, at 7:54 AM, Roger Shufflebottom wrote:
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> > Living dangerously here: Media Composer 5.5, FCP 7, FCP x and Premiere Pro CS5 on the same drive. I switch happily (well, sometimes more happily than other times) between them.
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> > On 5 Nov 2011, at 05:18, Greg Huson wrote:
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> > > Screw Terry and his secure dual-booting. Live life on the edge! Wanna spend the weekend in a panic like me? Put it all on the same drive! What are you going to do when it all goes up in flames? Call Terry! That's what I do. Hmm. I wonder why he never calls me back anymore.
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> > With best wishes,
> > Roger Shufflebottom
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