Media Drive Swap Fails – Why?
Posted in Video Editing on October 6th, 2011 6:47 am by admin
We have set up two identical (old) Symphony systems – each on identical Compaq 8000 running Win2000 and with swappable LVD drives.
We then digitized a bunch of stuff and did some simple edits on one system.
Finally, we shut down the first system and moved the drives to the second system (which was also off). When we started up the second system, the swapped-in media drives showed up – but were seen as "unallocated" and inaccessible. Worse, when we put them back in the first system, they were also "unallocated" so all our digitized media was lost.
We then tried the "hot swap" approach – in which we first "uninstall" the media drives from the first system and put them into the second system (which is also running). In this case, a rescan of the drives (using Windows Computer Management/Storage) the second system finds the drives as "foreign" – and we can then bring them (and their media data) into the second AVID. In this approach, all the media is accessible.
I am glad this works – BUT what can't we do a "cold swap" (move drives from a shut-down system to another shut-down system) and access them? Have I missed some critical step? If so (probably), what is it?
By the way, in both trials, we moived the Avid Projects folder so each system was looking at the same media data.
Can anyone explain how to reliably do a "cold swap" or should we just stick with t e "uninstall-move-reionstall" approach?
Jeanna
