[Jack Mcgee]

This has solved my bacon a few times. Shut down Episode, find and delete (or rename) node.xml. Restart Episode.

[Jack Mcgee]

Which KiPro? I don’t have an answer for you directly but I’ll tell you what I know about our KiProRacks. I can control them from ancient DNF controllor via R422. The same controller we used to control our Betacams.

Also, the KiProRack does not record closed captions, at least I’ve never to get any our of it. The only way AJA says you can get it is to play in real time our of the unit. I still couldn’t see captions in Adobe Premiere.

I’m told the KIPro Ultra (that we have in our truck) does record captions and they are present in the files you retrieve from it.

[Jack Mcgee]

Cache-A originally was TAR only. Later they offered LTFS support on same hardware. But you could continue to use TAR.

[Jack Mcgee]

I don’t know if this will help. We had a Pro-Cache that would not boot. I put a bootable copy of Ubuntu on a USB stick and it booted and recognized the tape drive.

I then hooked a NTFS formatted raid to USB of Pro-Cache machine, which Ubuntu recognized.

Then ran terminal command to repeatedly pull tar files off the tape on onto the NTFS drive.

This is what wrote to Tom Goldberg after I did it:

> FYI to update this, the Cache-A started reporting an error in BIOS
of
bad slave drive. It was not reliable in writing or reading
tapes.
>
> I made a live 16.04 Ubuntu Live USB key.
> Put that
in front USB, connected a NTFS formatted 4tb raid to USB in
back.
>
Booted, Ubuntu detected the LTO drive.
> I pretty much copied and pasted
the command from the Cache-A tech note
and am restoring the TAR
tapes.
> Thank you for that!

[Jack Mcgee]

I used to use it. It’s been broken for at least a week.

[Jack Mcgee]

I am not happy with the current situation with desktop encoders. Telestream Episode checked off all the boxes after we left Autodesk Cleaner To this day, AME does not have the workflow tools Episode had. I had a folder in Episode that told Episode to to multiple encodes and delete the source file. Or move the source file to another archive machine.

Adobe Media Encoder does have watch folders, but not nearly the complexity of Episode.

We are still using Episode I guess until the OS doesn’t support it, or newer codecs come on scene it cannot support.

One would think there is a niche market here that is not being served now.

[Jack Mcgee]

We bought a 1beyond Netdrive bundled with CATDV. Some minor bugs, but 1beyond is beyond reproach on support getting this up. Very happy with the system and support. They also sell LTFS systems without CATDV.

https://1beyond.com/archiving

[Jack Mcgee]

We didn’t have any tapes with errors. I was only speaking to your “bonus” point.

There is only one machine out there that will read those TAR tapes. I think that is the new Promax LTO machine.

If you don’t buy a Promax machine, you have to use the commands I gave or similar, to restore the TAR tapes.

We went with 1 Beyond LTFS solution with CATDV bundled. It can’t read the TAR tapes.

[Jack Mcgee]

Our Cache-A started exhibiting many errors. I used the Cache-A machine to restore TAR tapes. Our internal LTO drive was apparently good. I put a live Ubuntu installation on USB stick, plugged it into front of Cache-A. Plugged a NTFS formatted raid drive onto USB in back. That drive mounted at /media/ubuntu/CacheARestore

Booted off the Ubuntu USB, it detected the internal LTO drive. I used the CAT DV tech note to restore the TAR tapes. VERY slow process, but it works. You have to rerun the command maybe hundreds of times to restore all the files. But it does work.

the command I used:
sudo tar xvf /dev/nst0 -b 300 -C /media/ubuntu/CacheARestore

Eject:
mt -f /dev/nst0 off

Rewind:
sudo mt -f /dev/nst0

I’m not aware of any other way to restore the TAR tapes, other that a current day Promax solution.

[Jack Mcgee]

Thanks Tom.

I tried writing a small number of files to a newly formatted TAR tape.

It is still very slow to the point of being unusable.

The HP tools Drive Assessment says the drive passed.

I have repaired the Cache-A database. How would I just delete the database and start from scratch to see if that is the problem. And then restore it from backup?