[John Davidson]

Interesting, that appears to be for code 190. Code 194 is the one giving us warnings, and it doesn’t seem to have a 100-temp label:

0019 10:48:13 WARN Disk [MK0311YHGK8M4A] SMART attribute 194 worst is now
127
0020 11:48:13 WARN Disk [MK0311YHGLNS9A] SMART attribute 194 worst is now
125
0021 11:48:13 WARN Disk [MK0301YHGM9WKD] SMART attribute 194 worst is now
122
0022 11:48:13 WARN Disk [MK0311YHGLW9ZA] SMART attribute 194 worst is now
162
0023 11:48:14 WARN Disk [MK0301YHGLZ0PA] SMART attribute 194 worst is now
150
0024 12:48:13 WARN Disk [MK0311YHGK8M4A] SMART attribute 194 worst is now
125
0025 12:48:13 WARN Disk [MK0301YHGLBLPA] SMART attribute 194 worst is now
136

I have two additional drives coming in to replace one that was bad and another that seems to have a higher temperature than the others. We’ll see what happens….

Thanks again Petros!

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

Perfect. I tried to spoof it myself but I think I left of an underscore :). Thanks Petros!

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

Just a little update.

We are finally tossing our HPT card for an R680 in an EB8MS chassis and are using the recommended 6Gb/s 3Tb Hitachi drives from the Enhance Tech site. According to ProAvio we should get sustained 900Mb/s speeds with this configuration.

We have a second system with a R380 / EB8MS / 8 1Tb WD drives. It gets speeds of around 400Mb/s avg. We will be shuffling around a few things this week, but i’ll try to report what we find.

Many thanks to the Enhance Tech and ATTO support guys for being so responsive to my questions.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

Thanks Dennis. Believe me – we absolutely want to start using Premiere (we have 5.0). Nobody wants Adobe to nail it with CS6 as much as I do.
We’ve done lots of research into it. Our editors used it in school. The dream of perfect integration with AE should make our lives much easier.
There are some really fantastic possibilities. I just think that there should be much more ‘ease of use’ included in the Adobe suite of apps.

Here’s a great example. Do you want a reflection effect in any apple product (iWeb, iPhoto, motion, etc)? All you need to do is click a single check button. To do it in illustrator, well, there’s a 7 step process if you can google some tutorials. Wanna do it in AE? Go buy the plugin RG Warp, or try using all kinds of masks and do it yourself. The point is, it’s not simple or easy. These are the types of things that I really want Adobe to focus on. Simplify the interface. Think about adding things like a default dual monitor window setup. Many people who buy your products probably have a dual monitor system.

Let’s put it like this. I’m all dressed up and ready for our date this spring, I just need Adobe to buy me the lobster :). Thanks for being on the forums and facing the firing squad. That really does mean something.

j

[John Davidson]

Same situation for us. I’ve been researching Premiere, but there are so many little things that make me a hesitant. Adobe has a real opportunity to pull people into Premiere and become the dominant tool used by the industry, but this means overcoming some major roadblocks in thinking that has haunted the company for many years. They’ve got to start incorporating more creative looks into their software. They’ve got to stop leaving major holes in AE like no 3D text and extruding without buying a 1k plugin. They need to make an FCP simulator for Premiere, a plugin app store that constantly updates, the ability to have multiple open projects, and more frequent bug patches throughout.

We just wrapped up a project with 100 different kinds of sources, and it occurred to me today that lots of the rendering, conversion, media management, etc., would be much easier on FCPX. If only they’d update the stupid thing already to make it usable.

I just can’t even consider Avid. I played with the demo of 6, but it just feels like going backwards. Ugh.

For now, we’re waiting and staying with 7.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

There were some issues initially, but I think you might have to set your kernel to 64 bit and you’ll be ok. There’s a thread from when it came out around May-ish on the Kona for Mac forum.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

I’ve read that Telus blocks some port access. Might be worth your while to get a gmail account and have it automatically check your Telus account. I never recommend anyone use their ISP’s email systems as you tend to be held hostage by the ISP if you ever want to change providers.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

Who provides your email? Telus?

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

I just want CS6 to show some really smart improvements so that we can confidently switch from FCP7. I honestly have no hope for FCPX anymore.

Let’s hope CS6 is amazing.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

What I mean by your own server is a service like hostgator or go daddy, not an actual server :). It’s could be an issue with your host, or perhaps your ISP is blocking a port that needs to be changed.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.