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ATTO FC card and Boot Camp?
Is anyone successfully using an ATTO fibre channel card and Boot Camp with Windows? With the beta release of the Mac Pro-compatible ATTO FC driver, I’ve finally started using my ATTO fibre channel card and it works great in OS X. Unfortunately, I also have to occasionally run Windows on the same Mac Pro, using Boot Camp 1.1.2. Having the ATTO card is preventing Windows from booting. I get a text-based screen at the start of the boot cycle but it goes no further (there’s a flashing “_” symbol at the bottom of the screen).
Since there seem to be a lot of ATTO users in this forum, I’m hoping somene may have had this problem too and know an answer.
thanks,
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Well, I got my answer from ATTO. They know about the problem and simply said “Nobody supports Boot Camp yet. We’ll starting supporting it when OS X 10.5 comes out”. Wow, those guys are idiots! Time to start looking for an alternative to ATTO, I suppose.
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For as long as I can remember, ATTO has always been behind the curve when it comes to development. Almost always you can count on them to be at least one year behind. And their offense is…. “Well, who else are you going to use?” If you are planning to do HD video, then ATTO is the only “guy” on the block that can do this thru fibre channel at the moment. Apple will be the only real competitor, but they are slow to develop also.
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[fergush] ” Wow, those guys are idiots! Time to start looking for an alternative to ATTO, I suppose.”
what one second, yourkona card is not supported under bootcamp either.
I get my atto card to run by using a separate boot volume for windows on my Macpro rather than trying to get the machine to run inside of the Apple/unix OS.
gary adcock
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I don’t care if the Kona or ATTO cards don’t work in Windows: I just don’t want them to stop Windows from booting. Right now, I can’t even boot into Windows because the ATTO card stops it from working. What’s odd is that it sounds like it’s working for you. What ATTO card do you have? I am running Windows on an entirely separate drive on my Mac Pro.
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[fergush] ” What ATTO card do you have? I am running Windows on an entirely separate drive on my Mac Pro. “
I am not running windows inside of the mac os, I only boot directly into XP. and I am not having any issues.
I am running a 42ES card.gary adcock
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I’m not sure what you mean. I’m not running Windows inside of OS X. I boot holding down the option key and choose the Windows installation that’s on a separate drive. How did you get XP on your Mac Pro in the first place?
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[fergush] “I boot holding down the option key and choose the Windows installation that’s on a separate drive. How did you get XP on your Mac Pro in the first place?”
I removed the mac system drive, put in a blank hard drive in that slot, then held down the mouse after rebooting to get the CD to eject and then inserted the XP installer disk and started the install. I had no additional hardware or drives in the computer while I did this.
gary adcock
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The stupdity in this thread is almost beyond belief. ATTO is “behind the curve” because ATTO does not get support or advanced releases of the products from Apple. They have to figure it out themselves, and don’t get machines before any of us do. My snide remarks come from the fact that when the MAC Pro came out, APPLE (and their subcontractor) was NOT READY with their Fibre Channel Card for their own Apple XServe RAID, but ATTO WAS READY (at least the card worked, and saw the Xserve RAID). When you say “time to start looking for someone else” – WHO is absolutely a correct response. APPLE is not going to help Adaptec, LSI Logic (except when LSI builds the FC card for Apple), QLogic, ATTO or ANYONE ELSE. The same thing happend when the MAC QUAD came out with the PCI Express buss. It would be NICE if APPLE send their development partners a computer, and a phone number for software support, but they DO NOT. I guess APPLE does not consider ANYONE ELSE who makes host adaptors their partner, other than APPLE.
Do you think that APPLE is helping AVID get the Media Composer application working on the MAC Pro ?
OK, Mr. Smartie pants ?
Bob Zelin
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[fergush] “Wow, those guys are idiots! Time to start looking for an alternative to ATTO, I suppose.”
Not really. Apple is secretive with their stuff that all 3rd party vendors get their machines the same time we do. So it takes a long time for the third party vendors to catch up.
Your Kona card is not supported under Windows anyway so what you’re trying to do won’t work. You’ll need a Xena card which will probably make the Mac side of your machine not work.
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Huh, very interesting! Do you also have OS X on this computer, installed on a separate drive? Seems like a silly question but I do know of some people here who’ve bought a Mac Pro just to run Windows.
regards,
fh
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