Dear Phil,
The LVD Mediadock chassis when configured in dual bus mode is
effectively split into two halves with each half containing four
drives. The workstation should be configured so that each of its two
busses connects to one half of the chassis. The top four drives are on
Bus A and the lower four are on Bus B. Each slot assigns a unique SCSI
ID to the drive that occupies it so starting at the top:
Slot 1 is bus A ID 4
Slot 2 is Bus A ID 5
Slot 3 is Bus A ID 12
Slot 4 Is Bus A ID 13
Slot 5 is Bus B ID 4
Slot 6 is Bus B ID 5
Slot 7 is Bus B ID 12
Slot 8 is Bus B ID 13
With this information you can now go to Disk Management when one drive
does not mount and identify which drives have mounted with a
reasonable degree of certainty. Right click the My Computer icon on
the desktop and select "Manage". Select the Drive Management item
which will reveal a list of drives. If you look at each drive item the
block is split into at least two distinct areas - The physical disc to
the left and the volume information to the right.If you right click
each of the left segment of each drive item and select properties
somewhere in here should be listed the Bus and SCSI id of each item.
You can now correlate the bus and ID information with each slot in the
LVD chassis. With all drives placed in the chassis you should be able
to narrow a missing drive down to 2 drive slots. Because the bus
numbering will not correlate directly with the A and B bus labels but
you could of course just load the top four drives then identify those,
shut down and load just the bottom four and then identify. It should
nt take too many restarts to identify which one is not coming on line.
The Media Dock LVD install guide is here for more details on the chassis:
http://www.avid.com/onlineSupport/supportcontent.asp?browse=&productID=74&contentID=5579
or here:
http://www3.softimage.com/DS2/right/document/v7.01/trouble/right_text/troubleshooting/storage/pdf/mdf.pdf
With kind regards,
Neal
On 10/31/05, Phil Mastman <phil(at)sandlotpictures.com> wrote:
> Howard, I'm not sure how to determine which drive doesn't come up. Windows
> just reports that 7 drives are available for the stripe, when I go to import
> foreign drives. Is there a way that I can tell which one isn't coming up?
>
> --Phil
>
> > No.
> >
> > What position you store them should not be critical as long a s handled
> > gently. It just sounds as if you have a dying drive. Are you marking
> > them to keep track of which drive wigs out?
> >
> > H
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