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:
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> 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.
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> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Agustin Goya" <agustingoya@> wrote:
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> > 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.
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> > Sent from my phone
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Christopher Lowden
> > Sent: 19/07/2012 09:25:25
> > Subject: [Avid-L2] Recycling old unitys
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> > 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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