[David Norden]

Hi Bob, I Will get in touch with you very soon.

All the best

David

[David Norden]

I would look at the disc utility in os x, if you are on a Mac. If the drives show up there, but are not mounted, you should try something like Disc Warrior to repair the discs directory, they are usually screwed up at power interruptions.

All the best

David

[David Norden]

Hi David! We are working on a software that will let you do what you are asking about. I can send you a BETA if you are interested?

I hope I am not violating any COW-rules by offering this…

All the best

David

[David Norden]

Hi Cristopher, sorry to be off topic, cant help with the blu-ray thing.. Wanted to ask you about one of your old posts, where you said yoou had instructions from atto on how to increase the span depth, for a 24 drive raid setup… Did that succeed? And was it hard to do? With my new 45-drive chassi, 16 drives seems… Well, not enough:)

Best Regards

David

[David Norden]

I know they changed a lot in the smb/cifs client on Snow Leopard, but have a try with DAVE, makes thing easier for us at least…

Best Regards David

[David Norden]

Hi Dom! Sounds to me like a permission problem, cifs/smb works if you want to share a drive with the avid, but with the mac you might have to create a specific user and give that user write permissions to make it work. Also, trying DAVE, a replacement for the built in smb client in OSX, might help you, they have a demo you can try for a month I think.

Good luck, and keep us updated.

[David Norden]

Hi Ian, sounds like fun:) But seriously, we have not been working on sharing media between Macs and PCs, but this of course will be interesting to have. It´s hard to say what you can do to make it work but in general, using FAT32 for instance to move a disk betwwen PC and Mac works very bad when you try to edit on the Mac. We always end up cloning the disk to a Mac-formatted disk, but then of course the PC wont read it… You could look at MacFuse from Google, wich could make your Mac Avids compatible wit PC-formatted drives, but then you should avoid FAT32 because of all its other limitations. If you are sharing over a network, i assume that you are using Samba – then a good recommendation is to use DAVE for the Macs, it is more stable than the Samba-sharing in OSX.

If the problem is that you end up crashing your Avids and/or corrupting media and/or the media databasefiles, then this is exactly what we are working on solving. We will have a Beta-version for everyone to test, but not for several months… I don´t know if this is any help for now…

Best Regards

David