Hardware Upgrade: External BlueRay Recorder GGWH20L

I have started producing one-off, high definition films for weddings and have been looking for a decent way to deliver them to customers. I am currently using a combination of standard DVD with HD QuickTime movie in the DVD-ROM contents and have experimented with HD-DVD on standard single layer discs which play back beautifully on Mac or HD Player but Windows can't play them.
Is anyone out there using the LG GGWH20L BlueRay Burner (which is a reasonable price now) with their Mac? I have a first gen white MacBook and would choose to connect to the drive using FW400 and an external enclosure but I believe that the drive uses a SATA interface so a specific enclosure might be needed. How does OS X see this drive? OS X isn't listed as supported by the manufacturer but then that doesn't mean it doesn't work. Any advice / experience very much appreciated.

Hello! First, you know now that you should never do multiple upgrades at the same time. That said I'd first look at the most likely which is an error in the hard drives. Often cable select won't work. Make sure the drive jumpered master is on the end of the ribbon away from the motherboard and the one jumpered slave is on the middle connector. New drives are usually jumpered either master or cable select and if you installed it as a slave without proper jumpering then that's the most likely place to start. Post back when you're sure the drives are physically connected properly. Tom

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Can anyone comment on what they've done to keep their Mac Pro updated with the latest?
- Thunderbolt. I was surprised this wasn't in the updated 2012 Mac Pro. Has anyone heard of any third party thunderbolt cards? I've gone ahead and purchased a Thunderbolt hard drive for my Mac Book Air that also has a FireWire 800 port. I'm planning on using Apple's Thunderbolt to FireWire adapter (intended for MBA and MBP laptops) in reverse and use the adapter on the Thunderbolt hard drive to connect it to my Mac Pro tower's FireWire 800 port. At least this way when Thunderbolt does arrive for us I can just stop using the adapter. Apple genius said this should work, but I guess the proof will be when I go to copy lots of data (something Macs already struggle with) http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD464ZM/A
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- Display card. Anyone have recommendations on a better display card than the default one Apple shipped? Apple's original ATi Radeon HD 5770 works like crap with HDMI (mini display port or DVI), especially to my new Samsung 27" HDMI monitor. I'd love to get a new Apple Thunderbolt Display and refuse to buy the antiquated Apple Cinema Display. Seeing Apple's new Mac Mini with both HDMI and Thunderbolt gives me hope, but the Intel HD Graphics 4000 chipset seems pathetic. I did like that Apple gave the new iMac a NVIDIA Kepler GPU so maybe there is hope for the Mac Pro yet.
- Anyone find anything useful to put in the extra optical drive slot? The dream of a BlueRay recorder with Lightscribe support and Mac drivers seems long dead. I'd love to see some innovation like a removable SSD drive bay or something better than the coffee cup holder it has become.
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If there are Mac Pro users who like to work in the dark I would highly recommend the Moshi Luna backlighted keyboard. It works great and allows me to video edit without having to strain my eyes with uncessary room lights in order to see the keyboard. It sure beats the USB powered LED I was using to shine a light on Apple's extended keyboard! I still have to switch from Apple's Magic Trackpad to Magic Mouse when I bootcamp to Windows 7 (the trackpad drivers are not robust enough under Windows unless someone has found a solution).
I also ran into a horrific issue with Paragon's HFS+ Win 7 drivers hosing my Mac drives when I tried to use Sony's PMB software to copy HD movies to my Mac drives (NEVER AGAIN).
Any thoughts you have I'd love to hear!

Asus makes a card but it only works with certain motherboards made by them. Doesn't exactly have to be installed 'at the factory' but could be interpreted as such.
Until I start seeing PCIe graphics cards that support Thunderbolt either directly with a Thunderbolt connector on the card or an internal Display Port to Thunderbolt connector I'm not sure I would want a display that connects only with Thunderbolt.
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Limited (i.e. none to my knowledge) options at this time for discreet graphics cards that support Thunderbolt. So either you use either the Intel integrated graphics chipset (low performance) for video or a non-Thunderbolt display with a discreet graphics card.
If you daisy chain devices you have to share the bandwidth much like you do with Firewire.
Thunderbolt is great for laptops a small footprint computers because it extends the PCIe architecture outside of the computer giving you the option of using higher data capacities associated with PCIe. But since Mac Pros already have four PCIe slots why would you want to use up 4 PCIe lanes for a dedicated interface that is still in it's infancy?

Are UCS hardware upgrades service disruptive?

Hi Community,
Is fabric interconnect hardware upgrade from dual (clustered) 6120XP to dual 6248 service disruptive?
Is adding a new 5108 chassis to the existing UCS configuration with dual 6120XP service disruptive?

Thanks Kenny.
1). I have actually been using this document for my project, and I think I worked out a pretty good migration plan based on it, but there are some grey areas/questions, MARKED IN BOLD CAPS. Could you clarify them for me?
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!!! Step 3 Back up the software configuration information and the UCS Manager software !!!
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Step 5 Power down the EXISTING subordinate fabric interconnect by unplugging it from the power source. If you are monitoring the upgrade using a KVM session, you may need to reconnect the KVM session when you power down the fabric interconnect.
THE NEW FABRIC INTERCONNECT(S) SHOULD BE POWERED OFF AT THIS POINT
Step 6 Disconnect the cables running from the chassis IO Modules to the subordinate fabric interconnect ports in slot 1 (the old EXISTING fabric interconnect).
Step 7 Connect these cables into the corresponding ports in slot 1 on one of the new Cisco UCS 6248 UP fabric interconnect, using the connection records to preserve the port mapping and the configured server pinning.
See Fabric Interconnect Port Connection Record, on page 7.
See Fabric Interconnect Upgrade Considerations, on page 1.
Step 8 Disconnect the L1/L2, M1 management, and Console cables on the old fabric interconnect. The ports for these connections are on the opposite side of the interconnect, so if your cables are just barely long enough to connect two rack-adjacent UCS 6120 interconnects you will probably need new cables.
Step 9 Connect the M1 management, and Console cables to the new Cisco UCS 6248 UP.
Step 10 Connect the L1/L2 cables that were disconnected to the new Cisco UCS 6248 UP. L1 connects to L1, L2 connects to L2.
Step 11 Disconnect the Ethernet or FC cables from slot 2 of the old fabric interconnect.
Step 12 Connect the Ethernet or FC cables to the corresponding ports in slot 2 of the new Cisco UCS 6248 UP. Some may go to slot 1, depending on the mappings planned out earlier in the process
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I AM NOT SURE IF THE NEXT STEP IS APPLICABLE TO ME AT ALL, AS I DO NOT HAVE N10-E0440, I HAVE N10-E0060. COULD YOU COMMENT ON THIS?
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a) Use UCS Manager to delete the ports on the subordinate fabric interconnect that you will need to move within the configuration - WHERER DO I DELETE THE PORTS - ON THE NEW ONE?
b) For each port you have just deleted, create new ports on either slot 1 or slot 2. These ports must use the same port type definitions as the old ports, but will use different port numbers.
c) For recently moved Ethernet server ports, reconfigure the associated service profile to use the new port number for the appropriate LAN pin group.
d) For recently moved uplink Ethernet ports, reconfigure the port channel settings to use the new ports.
e) For recently moved uplink FC ports, reconfigure the associated service profile SAN pin group to use the new ports.
f) Re-acknowledge chassis for blade servers and fabric extender for rack servers.
This will be disruptive to traffic, but is necessary in this specific scenario. DO I LOOSE CONNECTIVITY FOR THE ENTIRE CHASSIS, OR JUST ONE FABRIC?
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Step 16 Verify that the data path is ready.
See Verifying that the Data Path is Ready.
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See Forcing a Fabric Interconnect Failover.
2). Does CISCO have a document outlining the steps for adding a chassis?
Regards,
Maxim.

Upgrade Tiger to Snow Leopard...... hardware upgrades?

Hope I'm putting this in the right location.
I'm currently running my MacBook in it's original configuration, as follows..
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Ron van Herk wrote:
> I'm not sure, didn't play much with external sub's and upgrades. But isn't
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>
> Ron
>
> "Jos Gerez Morata" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>>What's the procedure to upgrade external subscribers?
>>
>>We are upgrading to 6.5 from 3.0.2 and can't find how to upgrade our
>>external subscribers (windows machines without eDirectory). The upgrade
>>app doesn't show external subscribers object eligible to upgrade, only
>>distributors and subscribers.
>>
>>Thanks in advance
>
>
>

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