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?
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Jay Mahavier <jay_mahavier@...> wrote:
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> Oh, and on a third port I have a fiber attached tape library for backups.
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> The media composer is mostly used for import and export. Not for daily editing.
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> Jay
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> On Aug 28, 2012, at 12:19 AM, Jay Mahavier wrote:
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> > One problem that you may run into is what firmware version you need on the card for the two different SANs. If I remember right for a long time Unity wanted an old firmware on the card. So look into that.
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> > I do currently have a MacPro connected to both a Unity and a StorNext. Atto FC-84EN, driver 1.4.3, firmware July 28, 2010, OSX 10.7.4, Fiber Manager Client 5.5.1, I don't know the version of StorNext, but it's using the built in Xsan to connect. Though you don't use the client interface to do it. It's all line command.
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> > On Aug 27, 2012, at 10:52 PM, John Moore wrote:
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> >> Okay so our sluggish unity problem over ethernet is going to be addressed by a bigger Unity running fibre to the bays. Not sure how a lot of the fibre cards will play with unity but I think they are going to upgrade those too. My concern is a drive chassis I have dedicated to online on our SanMP network will no longer be accessible to me if my fibre is put on the unity. I've been told by one tech that unity doesn't play nice with other systems so a dual channel fibre card would not allow me to hook up to unity on one spigot and my fibre online chassis on the other. Like local storage. Or is there a way I could run SanMP on one port of the fibre card and unity on the other? The other option is the online drive chassis has and Ext. SAS connection so I guess we could put a SAS card in the Mac Pro and run the chassis that way. Right now there is a celerity 41 fibre card and the Avid Nitris DX host bus adapter card. That should leave room for
> >> an SAS card, right? Oh we've got so much help we'll never get done.
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