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old media composer help
ok, so I’ve been tasked to try and recover some old dailies of this media composer 7.1, from 1999, runninc mac os 8.2….yea remember those days?
OK so computer starts fine, the Media dock raid starts fine, but they don’t seem to be seeing eachother, also there is a dongle on the back of the mieda dock that’s an avid dongle, but even when plugged into the computer it doesn’t read as the MC dongle.
This ‘beast’ is running scsi setup and isn’t even y2k compatable, I died inside a bit when I set the date to today, and realized I told it we were in a time before Air plains, internet, and Avid. (ps wright brothers flew first plain in 1903…so I fudged ok…)
No matter what port setup I try I cant seem to get the raid to mount, or read, I would assume I would see it pop up on the desktop, but It’s been so long since I saw a pre osx computer and had to mount a raid to it I’m not even sure.
Any advice, this system was handed off to us, and do to it’s age, I don’t believe we will get support from the Avid mother ship.
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dang, Aaron, yer makin me feel old, brother.
Does th mac see the drives oris it just Avid not seeing them?
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hehe…yea maybe im a tad bit young…well not that young.
but the avid says all media is offline, and there is no drive appearing on the desktop So i’m gonna say it’s the computer
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A few things to try:
1. The dongle plugs into the keyboard/mouse port on the back of the Mac, and the Mac keyboard plugs into the dongle.
2. You shouldn’t be having a Y2K problem. Our Media Composer 7.1 doesn’t. But you can always set the time back to the 20th century if you think that might be causing a problem.
3. Check that the SCSI on the back of the Avid MediaDock is set up correctly. There are two sets of ports (A & B). The SCSI cable should be on port A, and there should be a terminator on port A out. Systems I’ve seen don’t have anything connected to port B. If SCSI isn’t set up correctly, that would explain why you don’t see drives on your desktop. If your RAIDed drives don’t show on the desktop, you cannot possibly get any existing media online.
4. There should be an even number of drives (2-12 depending on what hard drives you have).
5. Do your hard drives show up in Apple System Profiler?
I hope something here gets you going.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City
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