Bob Zelin
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there is no solution.
The last version of Cal Digit HD One software was Mac_V2.2.2 This driver will not run underMountain Lion, Yosemite or El Capitan.
And this card from what I can see has no Thunderbolt support for a Sonnet expansion chassis.
This is the chart from Sonnet –
https://sonnettech.com/support/charts/thunderbolt/index.htmlThis drive needs to get hooked up to an Old Mac Pro running OS X 10.8 or earlier, and then you would transfer the files off to an intermediate drive, or across an Ethernet network to your iMac.
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Bob Zelin
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I owe my current career to Lance Bachelor. A great editor, a great innovator, and a guy that has never been afraid
to take chances.Bob Zelin
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Hi Ronny –
to quickly defend myself, I am NOT talking about the fcp.co article, and I am also pretty anti AVID these days.
You know that I am a huge fan of LumaForge, although this product will not do AVID bin locking, required by most
AVID facilities. And why anyone would buy an ISIS when they can buy a Facilis, or EditShare (or SNS EVO or Tiger Share) is beyond me (yes, I know the AVID product is now the Nexis). I have no problem with Media Composer – it’s a great editing program – I have a problem with the company and it’s policies, and I have had this issue since they became a public company years ago and changed their policies.Bob Zelin
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I have heard all of this. Not only including Glass Door, but about reviews of AVID products on competing sites to Creative Cow that are not necessarily true.
But now matter what is said, there will remain the die-hard “don’t you tell me – every major motion picture and TV show is edited on AVID Media Composer”. They don’t say that they don’t own an AVID, but rent them from the large rental facilities in LA, that provide a temporary home for these AVID’s while a show or movie is in production, and then go back to the rental warehouse. And certainly these rental facilities have no incentive to say “hey, you guys should really check out this cheaper and better system, so you can work more efficiently, and I can make less money on the rental”.
And again – the die hards are all my age (over 45), with lots of experience (and lots of incentive to not learn anything new).I lived thru this over and over again. Real movies and commercials could only be cut in film. Then on CMX. Then on AVID. And 4K and RED would never replace a 35 mm Arri or Panaflex. I was at a company today, where the excellent 30 year old editor simply REFUSES to learn Premiere (or X) because he just wants to use FCP 7. This trait defines getting old. Even if you are only 30.
And every “professional” knows that FCP-X, FCP 7, Premiere, Resolve, and everything else just sucks. See you gentlemen on the unemployment line.
Bob Zelin
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Hello –
you cannot have what you want.
Not only can you not have an instant share between a USB flash drive product between 2 computers, you cannot have an instant share between two thunderbolt computers and a single thunderbolt drive, nor a firewire drive, nor a mini SAS drive, nor ANYTHING ELSE. You either buy a NAS (network attached storage), or you buy a full shared storage system. “But isn’t there anything for like 100 bucks that I can get to work” – NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO.What you are asking for makes sense, and you CANNOT do it. Even if your IT controlled domain workstation was not “locked down”, you CANNOT share a single drive between two computers, without some sort of management.
Period.
End of story
Voila
bye bye
sayonara
see you later
adios
bob Zelin
… and you too.Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
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I disabled signing on the MacOS clients and speeds went from about 180mb/s to 850mb/s over SMB3 on a 10GbE network to a 12 bay NAS unit configured in RAID6, btrfs. It was a breathe of fresh air discovering this a few weeks ago, since I’ve been battling this issue for a lot longer than most people have been writing about it publicly on the internet. There’s a lot chatter about disabling .DS_Store on network volumes for faster folder loading…REPLY – I have had the exact same experience. I have clients with 20 – 30 Mac’s that have updated to OS X 10.11.5, and this enables SMB signing, which as you now know, must be disabled – which is a PAIN IN THE BUTT – modifying files in Library> Preferences, and creating a nsmb.conf file in /etc. WHY APPLE – WHY ? Who cares about Microsoft security bugs, MACS do not need this !!!!!!!!!!!!! Will there be a fix in 10.11.6 – will there ever be a fix ? Or do we do to Sierra next ?
I still see speeds over 900mb/s on the same server over AFP though. For the time being, most of our client machines are still set to what has been working fine for a long time. I’m not a formally educated network engineer or systems administrator, I’ve just learned my tools well enough over the years.
REPLY – me too – and I still use AFP all the time. BUT AFP is OVER as of macOS Sierra in July/August/Fall 2016
NO MORE AFP. So does apple fix the signing issue in Sierra ?Is there a major advantage of SMB3 in MacOS over AFP at this point though?
REPLY – SMB is for compatibility with PC Networks, and if Sierra gets rid of AFP, as is being reported, we are stuck with SMB (and maybe NFS if that is still there).Many of the people that you see report on these forums are manufacturers, and want to keep their secrets. But there are no secrets – you either use SMB, AFP, NFS, or iSCSI. That’s it. We find out everyone’s secrets, we find out everyone’s tuning files. It’s all generic. It just kills me that Apple does not find this to be an important issue –
as of course we all should be using iCloud, and not our local networks !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Bob Zelin
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you are not genlocked. Black gen to both the Digi beta and the Blackmagic Ext Ref input.
Bob Zelin
Bob Zelin
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well don’t worry, because macOS Sierra re introduces the RAID software for RAID 0 and RAID 1.
You are the only person I know still using the horrible Apple RAID card (which was made by LSI).Buy an external box, and use a card from Areca, Highpoint or ATTO, and your headaches and fears will be instantly gone.
bob Zelin
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And speaking of “bring out your dead” (I love Monty Python, and that type of humor) –
A big hug out to Oliver Peters, that posted the link for updating your Mac 2009 4,1 into a 5,1 with a firmware update, so it can run macOS Sierra. My 2009 4,1 Mac Pro is now a 5,1 – so I can avoid purchasing a used 5,1.
My two favorite websites – without question – are Google, and Creative Cow. It’s amazing what you can find on both !
Bob Zelin
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listen kids – this is an FCP-X forum, and I am not talking about general cloud stuff. I am talking about
FCP-X, not being able to write Libraries to a shared volume, and now Apple is going to offer a simple solution, BUT you have to use iCloud. Now, I am not saying that what I just stated is accurate – but it sure seems that way. When Apple decided to get out of the networking business (with Xserve, XRaid, etc.), so did their editing app. And I questioned “why would they do this”. Well, they no longer made money from networking hardware, so why write an app that used hardware that they did not make money from. And FCP-X began to flourish. And VOLIA ! – all of a sudden we may have a shared solution, from that very company.
Remember – I may be completely mis reading this, and I may be completely wrong when Sierra actually comes out.
But it sure looks like this was the intention, since you could always “share to iCloud”.Bob Zelin
Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
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