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X SAN ProTools Support?
The facility I work at recently purchases an X SAN system. We were assured that "ProTools can read and write to it just fine". The X SAN drive is recognized by OS X (Leopard) and ProTools (7.4.2) but we are unable to change the volume type of the drive from "Transfer" to "Record" in workspace. (When tried, we receive the error ""LA_Post" cannot be designated as an Audio volume because it is not a fixed, removable or MediaNet volume" (The volume is named "LA_Post".) Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Re: X SAN ProTools Support?
I believe iSCSI systems work with PT but not Xsan.
frank. |
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Re: X SAN ProTools Support?
Frank is right
ProTools has it's own way of handling File level Sharing or Block Level Sharing You actually need a third party software in order to utilize the XSAN and be able for the storage pool to work with PT(r/w) via iSCSI: (at least this is what they claim) http://www.commandsoft.com/software_fibrejet.jsp or http://www.fibreshare.com/index.php?...on=com_content Or go for a complete solution like:http://www.ardistech.com/ http://www.studionetworksolutions.com/ |
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Re: X SAN ProTools Support?
FibreJet and other Volume Locking storage solutions work because they are HFS+based. Xsan if File Level Locking,
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Re: X SAN ProTools Support?
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sadly Xsan can not be used as a audio drive (for record or playback) by PT and whoever sold you it should know that; Digidesign have been telling people that it can't since Apple released it. Like someone else said its to do with the way PT accesses the file system. PT don't work with software based raid systems which is really what Xsan is. There are ways to fool PT to work with it but having tried it I would not recommend them. That said you can play video off a Xsan in PT which speeds thing up a great deal and depending on the speed of your fibre channel connection copying sessions to and from is very, very fast. The iscsi route can use the Xsan storage (I believe), but be sure to test before buying Hope this helps Pete |
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