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RAID admin (Xserve)
I am having trouble opening my RAID admin utility which I need to use to re-format my Xserve RAID drives to RAID 0.
I am going to be capturing uncompressed HDCam footage.
I was told that this process takes 24-36 hours so I would love to do this when I leave today (Friday) so it’s ready when I return on Monday.
I already tried re-installing the utility from the CD. I tried downloading the update. No luck.
I think it has something to do with the subnet or IP connection via ethernet from the RAID to the G5.
Please help.
Thanks in advance.
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1 Reply
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Is it the application that won’t open, or that you can’t connect to the drives. Check your ethernet connections, and have you assigned IP addresses to the controllers or are they on DHCP. If they’re on DHCP, turn on internet sharing on your mac as that will start a DHCP server that the drives will lock onto and get an IP address from.
But why reformat RAID0? Mine are formatted RAID5, and each half is joined together with the OS X drive utility via RAID0, so the whole thing becomes RAID50 and I get ample speed for uncompressed HD. According to the BMD disk utility, which I find conservative, I’m getting over 200MB/s write and over 300MB/s read.
Graeme
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