Sort of off topic re: raid drive

i just bought a GRaid2 hard drive,
to use with FCP.
I've never had a raid drive,
so I know nothing about partitioning a drive.
If there is a link or someplace online where I can
learn more about partitioning a raid drive, please let me know.
I already googled, and found a few sites that talk
about partitioning raids, but honestly,
it was all Chinese to me.
Is there any specific software that will partition the drive
for you? does Disk Utility in the Mac do that?
thanks to all

Don't partition. Leave it one big drive. The G-Raid is a hardware raid, meaning that the two drives in the case show up as one. Use the Disk Utility to format it MacOS Extended (journalling off) and you are set.
Shane

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Sort of off topic, but same old question looking for a new answer

Ok I'm ready to start a new site. I'm going cheap as it's all coming out of my pocket including hosting. I want to put a video chat room on my site. Is there anyway to capture a webcam in this fashion in director. I've done tons of searching but I can't really find anything. I'm trying to avoid using the flash communication server for three reasons. 1) I already have the director multiuser server that will host up to 1000 users (the room will never be anything close to that big 50 peeps tops) and my web host will support it and install it for me. 2) I can't find anything at a really cheap price. I'm looking at 25 cam users at once... 3) Actionscript is nothing I've every really worked with before, but I could do the lingo programming.
I have a few questions First of all I read something about putting a flash element on the stage, and that the flash player is what captures the webcam. But I assume that it still needs flash communication sever to upload the video. Is this correct?
Is there an xtra that will do what I want?
I read something about encoding the video to realvideo, but I have no clue how as I've never done anything like that before. Will this work and do you know of a tutorial for this?
Do you know of a really really cheap flash comm host?
Really off topic but, I could write the text chat end of it in cold fusion. Is there a known way to easily add the video in this way?
Does anyone know of a cheap off the shelf video chat room that I can put up on my site and just pay for the bandwidth overage that it uses?
Thanks for any help any of you could give me.
Cane

There are several 2.4 GHz MacBook pros shipped over several years.
If this is your Mac (2007 model) scroll down to the memory section and read:
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/stats/macbook-pro-core-2-duo-2 .4-15-santa-rosa-specs.html
Standard RAM:
2 GB
Maximum RAM:
6 GB*
Details:
2 GB installed as two 1 GB modules. No slots free.
*Apple officially supports a maximum of 4 GB of RAM but third-parties have been able to upgrade the system to 6 GB of RAM using one 2 GB and one 4 GB memory module.
Site sponsor Other World Computing sells MacBook Pro memory, as well as hard drives, batteries, carrying cases, and accessories.
... and that sponsor is not a bad place to get RAM at all. They are experts, and back it up with a "money back if it does not work in your Mac" guarantee.

Unable to capture to external RAID drive FCP 7

Here are my specs:
Model Identifier: MacPro1,1
Processor Name: Dual-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz
Number Of Processors: 2
Total Number Of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per processor): 4 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 1.33 GHz
Boot ROM Version: MP11.005C.B08
Running:
OS X 10.5.8
Final Cut Studio 3 (recently upgraded from Studio 1)
At the end of last year I had a problem with capturing and upon research it seemed to be that the most recent update of QuickTime was not compatible with Final Cut Pro 5, which was causing my machine to not be able to capture at all. So we upgraded to Final Cut Studio 3 (FCP7) and part of the problem was solved but an issue still remains.
For over 3 years we have been using an external Raid drive as a capture scratch and we still have over 5 TBs free. The Raid is connected by SCSI. Earlier last year I was able to capture to the Raid drive without any problems but now the capture will freeze whenever that is set as the capture scratch. If I set the internal drive as the capture scratch it captures without any issues.
The problem is that using the internal as the capture scratch can only be a short term solution. The drive is only so large and I have a problem with finder if I try to move files from the internal drive to the external. Finder freezes up and I can't even force quit properly. So being able to once again use the external as the main capture scratch is the only real solution. The external is fully functionally and communicating with the Mac.
Any help with resolving this would be appreciated!

Off the top of my head, because I haven't worked with SCSI in years--
"The problem is that using the internal as the capture scratch can only be a short term solution. The drive is only so large and I have a problem with finder if I try to move files from the internal drive to the external. Finder freezes up and I can't even force quit properly. So being able to once again use the external as the main capture scratch is the only real solution. The external is fully functionally and communicating with the Mac."
Are you trying to move files while you have FCP open? The fact that simply moving files is giving you finder issues and freezing you up, says that all is not well with the scsi raid. You should not see that at all.
You might try powering down the mac and the raid, unplugging and letting the machine sit for a while to discharge the capacitors. Then try reseating the scsi card. (pull it out carefully and plug it back in.)
On another note, when you upgraded fcp, did you do a clean install?

I cannot install windows 7 x64 with AMD/ASUS RAID driver

Trying to install Windows 7 Ultimate x64 on an ASUS M5A97 mobo with AMD SB850 RAID, two WD 750GB drives configured as RAID 0. No drives are recognized by W7 install, so I choose Load Drivers. I put the drivers on a USB stick. Install finds the drivers there,
starts loading them, then comes back with "Installing an unsigned 64 bit driver is not supported and may result in an unstable Windows installation." I downloaded the latest drivers from ASUS website which are WHQL certified (as are the one's on the motherboard
disk). I saw other posts that recommend clicking Repair instead of Install, but I don't see where that option is. All I am given as options are Upgrade or Install. Choosing Upgrade tells me to boot Windows first. But this is a brand new install so...
I tried pressing F8 as setup was booting and chose "Disable Signed Driver Requirement" but that had no effect at all. If I turn off the RAID W7 sees both disks and happily installs. I see related posts going back to 2009; surely someone has
a solution for this issue?
Da Bomb

Hi guys,
I have been struggling with the same issue.
Win7 x64. Gigabyte GA-X79-UD3 Mobo with Intel core i7-3930K at 3.20 GHz
Marvell 88SE9172 SATA RAID controller with two Hitachi 500 GB spinning disks configured as RAID1
Windows would get to the point of asking for a mass storage drive. It would not see the RAID I had created.
Tried every driver I could find. Tried drivers from the "Station Drivers" website. Tried Marvell drivers for the same chip from the ASUS website. No luck. Tried loading from CD as well as USB flash drive. Always the same result... Windows would find
the drivers appropriate for the hardware found, I would select the RAID version, and after a few seconds, would report that the drivers were unsigned, and the installation was not supported for 64-bit drivers. Clicking OK would take me back to the load drivers
display with no new drives listed in the available drives window.
I tried hitting F8 during startup, and selected the "allow install of unsigned drivers option". That didn't do ANYTHING. Still the same error.
Someone suggested putting the drivers in the root directory. That didn't work. I also disabled all other drives except one CD rom and a USB drive and made sure that my RAID array was the first drive in the boot list.
Tried doing a windows repair, as someone else suggested. (This is an option that is available on the install disk I am using. It's enabled as part of EMS (emergency management services) in setup. Anyway, this was reported to be a workaround
to the signed driver issue. It would allow me to browse to the individual files, but no matter which one I selected, the response was "cannot find hardware appropriate to the driver selected" or some such nonesense. So I gave up on that.
Doing the install with the controller in IDE mode with just one drive connected, would result is Windows installing without a hitch. The problem was clearly when I presented 64-bit windows with a controller in RAID mode.
Long story less long, here's what worked for me....
Out of desperation, I began trying other subfolders in the driver lists. The Gigabyte manual indicated that the AMD64 subfolder was the correct one for the Marvell controller, when using RAID mode with 64-bit Windows. After trying every subfolder of
every driver I could find, the driver in the i386 folder actually worked. It initially came back with the same error about unsigned drivers, but after clicking OK, my RAID drive showed up in the list. I have been able to partition and format
the drive from within Windows setup, and am continuing with the install now. Hopefully won't be any problems booting from the drive post install, but so far it looks good, and I'm relieved that I was able to get it this far.
The whole process has been one of the most frustrating computing experiences I've ever had. This is what it was like back in the 90's when building PCs from scratch. I'm amazed that in this day and age the process is still so poorly documented
and filled with potholes, traps and caveats. Shame on the entire PC industry for allowing this to continue. I'm not asking that they jump in and try to automate it and do all the thinking for me (their solution for everything lately)...all I'm asking for it
clear, concise and accurate INFORMATION.
With the right information, and software that provides accurate feedback, this would all be easy...and even fun.
Hope this helps someone faced with the same problem.

Mac Mini and WD My Book Duo RAID drives not mounting?

I have two of these My Book Duo drives connected via USB to my Mac Mini (late 2012), running OSX 10.9.5.
The drives are both configured as RAID 1, one has my iTunes and other media, the second one is the Time Machine backup disk. Last night when I restarted my computer neither drive mounted. I got an OSX error "THe disk is not readable" and a WD error "RAID stripe set has failed" box.
When I open the WD drive utilities I can't run any of the Diagnostics and the RAID Management tab says "RAID Status: Unknown" and suggests that I re-configure the drives.
I don't want to do that, obviously, as there is a total of over 3TB of data on both drives! It's suspicious that BOTH drives failed to mount at the same time... sounds like some software problem perhaps? I am posting here because it might be an OSX or local software problem?
I have updated the firmware on both drives and power-cycled them, restarted the computer several times, the usual things, but no luck. On a whim I tried updating the firmware a second time and got a different error in the firmware updater: "The drive is locked."
Any thoughts on what I could try? I've opened a Support Case with WD but oftentimes other users can be even more helpful! ;-)
Thanks, David

Hi, Thank you for the reply but I am definitely exactly one of those more Enterprise customers and my point is that your implementation is flawed and should be fixed because of course one of the reasons I bought the WD My Book Duo is because of encryption, but I want to own my encryption key and be able to decrypt my own data not have it hijacked. So I'm a little bit confused by your answer, is the official WD response that it acknowledges the worrysome problems I outlined but that there will be no plan to fix these issues? I am an IT consultant myself making recommendations for clients especially dealing with security. How can I recommend to "anyone" to use a product that seems to not care about preventing unnecessary data loss. It is not impossible nor even difficult for WD to fix this problem, to allow customers to access their own data off of their hard drives in case their "drive enclosure" develops problems or 'dies'. As I have already outlined, there are at least two ways or more that WD can fix this: 1. Allow enabling or disabling of the Encryption.And/OR2. Allow Exporting/Saving of the Encryption Key which we can then use with software to decrypt our hard drives in case of problems arising with our drive enclosure. Ideally the solution should include method #2 listed above so that we can enjoy the Encryption feature for which we purchased your products with assurance that we will NOT be locked out of our data for no good reason. I hope WD will consider taking a close look at this issue since it may at some point find itself with a lot of very angry customers when their WD My Book duos or other similar encrypted "drive enclosures" fail and people end up with perfectly functioning hard drives with data on them that they won't be able to access. Looking forward to a solution.

RAID DRIVE WON'T WORK IN LINK MEDIA BROWSER

I have a RAID 5 drive connected to my MACPRO (MacPro5,1), OSX 10.9.2. Its working fine on OS. In Premiere Pro CC I can import files from it no problem, everything seems to be fine until I try to link media from it. The link media browser won't access it. I can see it, I can see the RAID drives icon, but it won't access the files.
In the link media browser it won't show on the Local Drives list on the left pane. When I double click on local drives, on the right pane I can see the RAID HD icon, but when I click on it it won't open it. It knows its there but can't access it. I don't get it. I can import files from it, etc, but not link files. I would have to redo the whole sequence with files from that RAID drive and its days of work.
I would appreciate enormously any help with this issue.

Adobe CC 2014 v8.1
iMac 27" 3.4GHz w/12GB Ram.
OS 10.9.5
OWC Mercutry ELite Pro Dual.
RAID 0
Thunderbolt.
No adapters or daisy chaining going on.
The RAID is new and only has about 700GB of data on it.
I read on Creative Cow that alexojedav522 was able to figure out that the size of the drive was his issue:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/3/954245
After reading that I tried repartitioning my RAID into two sections of 2tb each (let's call them Partition1 and Partition2).
So Partition1 is just the original partition (which was 4TB) shrunken down to 2TB.
Partition2 is the brand new partition.
Oddly enough, I can access Partition2 via Media Browser just fine.
And when I move media onto it I can relink it as well).
But Partition1 is still not accessible via Premiere at all.
I am currently moving everything off of Partition1 and onto Partition2, so that I can at least relink my project and get to work.
But obviously that isn't a permanent solution.

Request to have off-topic posts moved

There are a number of posts accumulated in the Server and Storage Systems group of forums that are just not on-topic for them.
Generally they've been posted by people that care to not read anything nor drill down to an appropriate forum and just dump a question.
I've done the "report abuse" routine on a number of them but that seems to have been ignored.
Thus this new post.
These are from the last 60 days:
(need to be moved to a Glassfish forum)
How to start Galssfish when computer start
Glassfish 3.0.1 updatetool
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2128052
war for modify domain.xml in glassfish 3
Glassfish 2.1 + JPA 2: need some Sun/Oracle expert advice
(topics for Sun Java System "whatever" applications, posted to server forums)
AMPostAuthProcessInterface redirect problem
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2127174
Weblogic Spring/Sample Application Help
Cannot add new LDAP Group Members in Sun Java Server 7.0
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2134347
Help with iPlanet
iText vs Jasper Java Application Source Code
OpenMQ Unack'ed messages causing Java Heap overflow in STOMP
(database product questions posted to System Administration and hardware forums)
how can i release lock record?
Oracle for Mac
Problem using TNS_ADMIN in registry (Ora. 11g R2 Instant client in Win. 7)
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2154755
/opt/SUNWwbsvr7/bin/wadm exited with error: 125
Performance Testing tool
ORA-00202 and Fractured block found during control file header read
Performance Monitoring
Reg : Weblogic Server Installation
how can export from 11g to 9i
What's wrong with oracle database11g? Is it a serious problem?
Client download link needed
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2149037
Oracle 10G on VMware Redhat Linux
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2138098
I Can't Connect to Oracle
what is the function of autoextensible field in dba_data_files?
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2139323
databse copy
Advice needed regarding Database design practice
enterprise manager
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2128320
Problem with granting privileges
Inatalling IDM 11g on WondowsXp machine
Any good resources for info on specifications for a new 11g install?
During installation EMCA trows an error: Error uploading configuration data
I received Validation error in the Backup Setting
RMAN RESTORE
Find the user(s) using more CPU in a database
Oracle 10g 64-bit database on Windows 2008 R2 (64-bit) error ?
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1554073
Temporary tablespace not cleared
TNS -12541 TNS: no listener
Installing Oracle 11g on a server without network access
RMAN Shows the following error... Please any one can help me....
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2137784
java.lang.Exception
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2138186
ORA-12543 When creating a new oracle instance, Oracle 11g
Problem with Uninstalling Oracle 11.2 on Windows Server 2008
problem installing mod_plsql oracle 11g linux
Best practice for install oracle 11g r2 on Windows Server 2008 r2
ORA-12535: TNS:operation timed out
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1982259
move datafile/tablespace in a partitioned table
Orace 11g CRS installation ( windows server 2008 64 bit ) Error
Datapump import from a map drive
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1982528
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2126409
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2126802
Oracle Startup/Shutdown with SQLPLUS and ORADIM in Windows...
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1574872
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2123572
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2041227
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2077085
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2069660

If these last few are pruned out of the SysAdmin forums, that should finish the housekeeping task. They're the most recent entries of off-topic questions.
database postings to the SysAdmin forums
Backup database with RMAN
sql*NAT?
How can convert Oracle 10g trial to License
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2160796
Visual Web Developer 2010 Express and Oracle ODAC - Oracle data provider
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2160572
Huge amount of "db file sequential reads" while INSERT APPEND operation
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2160410
Oracle Universal Installer - Toad - Virtual Machine Windows 7 on Mac
What to check or can say from where to start?
Where and how does oracle store tables?
Oracle net configuration assitant failing while installing Oracle 11g.
Resolving Mview Complete Refresh Performance
Problem with silent install of 11gR1 on Windows 2008
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2157067
ORA-01991: invalid password file
Sequences incorrect after exporting and importing a scheme
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2153592
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2149027
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2128320
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2137784
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1982259
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1574872
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2123572
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2041227
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2077085
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2069660
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2113069
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1981627
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1981082
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1981287
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1979404
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1955376
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1844213
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1773975
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1773059
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1555844
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1555363
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1554035
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1518192
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1272113
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1134136
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1938192
Again, the community moderators don't have permissions to do that.
Thanks

G-Raid drive disappeared while using FCP. Will no longer mount.

Ah! Help! I'm on deadline to edit a film trailer for tomorrow and my hard drive and all my footage just disappeared. I was using Final Cut Pro (6.0.6?) with my G-RAID 2TB drive as my scratch disc, and while I was using it, the drive unmounted. I tried powering it off. Restarting the computer. Swapping out new fw800 cables. Switching to a differnt fw800 port on my drive. Restarting again. The drive powers up but does not show. I then tried putting the fw800 cables into my other smaller drive. This also did not show up. I've used two sets of cables. I don't have any other cables to try. But it makes me feel like something is wrong with the Mac now. I am very tech inept and stressed about this deadline so any help would be great. I recently (a few weeks ago) upgraded to 10.5.8 and have had no problems. (this was after an intital upgrade several months ago that worked fine until all of a sudden it got stuck on the login page. I reset the pram and pressed C and and a number of things on start up and eventually rebooted from the leopard discs and reinstalled with no problems. just mentioning it in case). From time to time when I have started up FCP in the past, it has not been able to see my g-raid drive, but that just seemed to be a factor of me starting it up too late or out of order.
Imac 7,1
Intel Core 2 Duo
10.5.7
Any more info I can provide? Any help would be great! I am desperate to have my footage back and computer working so that i can make this grant deadline tomorrow!
Thank you!

Try doing a SMC reset, that might do it. Make sure ALL peripherals are unplugged when you do it and plug them one at time, test, next one, test etc...
_SMC RESET_
• Shut down the computer.
• Unplug the computer's power cord and all peripherals.
• Press and hold the power button for 5 seconds.
• Release the power button.
• Attach the computers power cable.
• Press the power button to turn on the computer.
Roger

Best raid drive for uncompressed 10bit HD?

Anyone know what sort of Raid drive I would need to ingest HD at uncompressed material.
I know I need somewhere in the area of 350mbps/sec speed but can't seem to find any near that spec. So not sure where to look, any suggestions would be great.
Thanks, Mungo

For 10 bit 4:2:2 you only need to roll like 200MB per sec. It's data rate is around 167 or so depending on the codec/capture card.
SATA drives write in packets so you need higher rates because you might slow down for a sec (look at the graph in Speed Test apps) Whereas SCSI and other drives stream their data... and cost more.
I use the little G-Tech G-speed fiber drives, more money but you can share them on a SAN later if you add a machine. If you will never do that, then go with a speedy sata version. Look at their ES series. I've used 2 of those in a raid 50 with great results. Note: 4 sata drives in a raid 5 or raid 3 will not reliably do uncompressed HD in most situations. Raid 0 is different of course. Now, get Googling.

Web Portfolio Software Advice (off topic)

hi all.
i have been really happy with my ability to organize a very large amount of images in Aperture and to publish them easily to Flickr (among other things).
this has now freed me up to focus on creating a new website for an old website that needs updating. right now i have just created a /link/ for the pictures on the webpages which takes the viewer to the flickr albums.
i am looking at "themes" such as the WordPress Photography theme (http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/photography/) and i am also looking at sites that are using the "autoviewer" or "autoviewer pro" software.
http://www.iloveconcrete.net/drive1/drive1.html
http://www.simpleviewer.net/autoviewer/
anyway, i am familiar with using wordpress UI but i am desperately trying to find a method where i don't have to use the wordpress image uploader. i guess the holy grail would be to just "publish" album "code" out of Aperture that i would then embed into a WP theme website which i am sure i could create in a week or something.
anyway, does anyone know of anywhere i can ask such questions or get some leads on keeping this workflow simple but create a nice website at the same time?
TIA and apologies for the off-topic post.
jon

I liked "Waves" and thought most of the sounds were good- the piano was very realistic to my casual listen. I did however find the backing strings of the first couple of minutes to be fairly "synth" sounding, maybe that's what you wanted, but to me it could have sounded more like an actual string ensemble. Later on it seemed to be working more to my liking with the strings playing individually.
It's not the most expensive thing out there, but I have been using IK Multimedia's Philharmonik, which is not good for a lot of things, but it does really capture a real "woody" and "dry" sound on the cellos, violas, etc.
I also tend to agree that MySpace could be a good addition for you. And I notice that your vox on the podcast was only coming at me from the left.
Keep it up! It's a lot of fun to do- I'll send you a thing I wrote with Philharmonik and Sibelius 5, it's sort of just me learning those and not really finished, still, you'll get an idea of what Philharmonik sounds like.

Nforce3 raid sata raid driver

Hi everyone...
I have a k7n2 Delta 2 board and have installed everything...but noticed the Sata Raid driver floppy that came with it has become corrupted (probably by me)
Anyway...does anyone know where I can download any Nforce3 sata raid drives from the web (that are reliable)
I am running windows XP Pro
PS. can anyone also tell me is their a certain way to install them and if it would matter which version number to install (sorry just a bit of a computer newbie)
thanks in advance

menace, why did you start a new post when this topic had your answers? i removed your other topic
as sharp says, copy the contents of the IDE folder to a floppy (leaving out the Raidtool sub-folder). note that if you are only using a single SATA drive, you do not need this floppy to install windows, it is only if you are installing onto a RAID array

Off Topic: Change File Attributes (date)

Hi All,
Sorry this is off topic but I need a quick fix. I need to
change the date stamp on a set of files within a directory. Anyone
know a quick trick? Just need to mark all files with today's date.
We are restricted on freeware and shareware on site, so would
rather do this without downloading third party software.
thanks
Craig

Yeah I could do with a fix too, it's that sort of a day!
You are old enough and ugly enough to remember DOS. I think
you could change it there. In Windows I think you are restricted to
using third party software. I have a good programme. Want to drop
by here lunchtime with all the files on a memory stick?

Nvidia Raid Driver

Is there any way to stop the raid driver screen from showing up while booting? Also is there any way to have the bios remember what ide devices are installed so it doesnt have to search for them every time you restart? I would like to speed up my boot times.

Hi pmontone ,
Welcome to the forum,
1) Only by turning off raid.
2) No, as you don't give any further details can't help specifically. By making sure all ATA drives are jumpered correctly detection will be helped.

D20 (4158-48G) RAID driver -problem / Win 7

Hello,
I've created an array (RAID1) using two identical 500GB hd's. Marvell's raid bios (?) gives me the long awaited info that the RAID1 is online and ready to be used. The problem is with Win 7.
I've downloaded "drivers" that I need from here: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-73716
When I boot my system, Win 7 tells me that RAID driver is not installed correctly. When I go to the device manager and try to update the driver from specific location W7 doesn't find the drivers at all.
No luck.
Getting pissed off
And as much as I have tried to use google and this forum to solve my problem - i'm starting to feel I'm all alone with this problem (
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Thanks!
the problem was that I followed too blindly Lenovos homepage and assumed that the right driver was located where I thought It should be.
I went to Support -> ThinkBrand -> Quick Path
Typed my model D20's model number (4158-48G)
Chose a link "Downloads & drivers"
From "Refine results" -box I chose "RAID" - and it only gave intel Matrix driver support..
The correct one was found from here:
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=TSTN-MATRIX
->
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-72280

Xseve RAID Drives won't hot swap

Hi all
Our Xseve Raid drives seem to have stopped hot swapping. Pressing the pop out bar should (according to the manual) turn off the green power light on the drive enabling you to just pull it out. However the green light never goes off.
Any ideas
Cheers

Uhhh...
That's not how it works. If you release the handle, the drive will keep running and operate just fine. Releasing the handle does not tell the RAID "prepare to unmount." It in fact does nothing.
You can just yank the drive. It will beep, and complain (as it should). You can insert a new drive and the RAID set will be rebuilt on it (so long as the drive is indicated to be "available for use" in the Xserve RAID).
I don't know what manual you're reading, but it's wrong.

Sort of off topic re: raid drive

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