Steve Modica
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[Vince Sanchez] “Only one edit station can connect to the G5. What I’m seeing is that afp will only connect to the ethernet port that is at the top of the list of connectons in the Network panel.
Stumped.”the port at the top has the default route. You can’t connect via the finder and the “Shared” section where you see the server show up. That will use bonjour to find the server. You have to hit cmd-K and connect to server using the correct IP address.
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You probably have them on the same subnet. That won’t work. It screws up the routing table.
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My not so humble opinion on “sharing” is that people over do it.
At SGI, we wanted to have all our source code in one place for all 600 engineers to access. So we had a giant machine that ran NFS and that eventually led to cxfs.
People want all their “stuff” in one big bucket because then they don’t have to organize it. However, it still has to be organized!
I think FCP X is “fine” for new people that don’t have existing customers that force legacy workflows. I think Apple realizes (as they do with many things) that they could either revamp FCP 7 or for the same engineering effort, create the newest thing that grabs the new market. Once again, they push down market.
If only SGI had pushed down market rather than building bigger and bigger onyx machines. Perhaps we’d all be running with SGI video cards and workstations?
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[Thomas Duvrai] “and FireWire is very much like Ethernet.”
There’s Ethernet and EtherNOT. EtherNOT never wins..
That’s a true statement and has been for a long time.Fibre Channel was supposed to be a “better” network. it was supposed to be a converged network. It supported IP. Cray and SGI both had drivers. However it went nowhere because ethernet is ubiquitous. You can’t make chips that cheaply. Switch and infrastructure (routers, bridges etc), just aren’t available.
I think the chance for a non-ethernet network protocol is in wireless. That space is still “the wild west” and it’s possible something could happen that creates a happy plateau that forces Ethernet on to the next level.
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[James O'Connor] “If we symlink, or find another way to let FCPX access events and projects on the SAN, then you will have multiple editors all accessing one “FCPX Events” folder and one “FCPX Projects” folder.”
Absolutely. Don’t do this!!!!
I was simply running a test to see how smart the thing was about this stuff. If you had 3 machines at your house and you were the only user, I think this could work, but I would never suggest something like this for a real shop.There was a suggestion to create disk images using disk utility. I liked this a lot. Then you can duplicate your project to that image and had another editor a nice .dmg file on a stick he can use. Assuming he’s imported the same clips as you, it should all work.
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I think there’s at least one if not two generations of mac pro yet to come. I don’t think thunderbolt chips are widely available enough to drop PCIE based platforms yet.
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[Bill Dawson] ”
If he can do it with PCIE…I would think you should be able
to do it with Thunderbolt.”Note the requirement for drivers. All this stuff is easy except for those 🙂 PCIE is switchable and routable except that hosts don’t expect to see multiple initiators on their busses. It’s just like saying “there are infiniband switches out there, so if someone can do it, it should be doable”. Sure it is. You just need all the drivers written. Apple makes things like this particularly difficult since one can never be sure what they are doing to do next (like ditch the Xserve or make Xsan free). It’s a serious gamble to put $1mil in development time into something like that.
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My understanding from our resellers is that this is an OpenE box. We sell openE on Mobile as well. OpenE only supports the 82598 chipsets out of the box because they use an old kernel (we get a special mod so we can support 82599 with receive side coalescing). That’s why I was curious. It looks like they don’t have it.
OpenE does a linux based storage stack for white boxes.
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Drivers live in /System/Library/Extensions
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Were the interfaces SFP+ or the older cx4?
Steve Modica
CTO, Small Tree Communications