Product specifications

Version 3.3.4 Release Note Addendum

What’s New in MediaNetwork Version 3.3.4

MediaNetwork version 3.3.4 does not contain any new features.

This document contains the following sections:

• The Scrubber Utility

• Providing System Security

• Supported Macintosh Hardware

• Upgrading the Alacritech Ethernet Board Driver

• Software Problems Fixed in Version 3.3.4

• Known Issues

The Scrubber Utility

If you running a Windows 2000-based system attached via Fibre Channel

to Avid Unity MediaNetwork shared storage with a Windows 2000 File

Manager, under certain circumstances the Windows 2000 System hive can

grow to an unacceptable size and ultimately render the system unbootable.

When this occurs the only solution is to re-image the system using the

Avid Product Recovery CD and then re-install the Avid product software.

Any system with multiple Fibre Channel switches is at high-risk of showing

this problem.

To help alleviate the hive growth problem, Microsoft has created a utility,

Scrubber.exe, that removes stale entries from the hive file and optionally

compresses the file. Avid has created a script that you can install that runs

the Scrubber utility each time you shut down your system and keeps the

hive file at a safe size. As an extra precaution, a script also runs at startup,

removing stale hive file entries but not compressing the file.

Avid recommends that the Scrubber utility be installed on every

Windows2000 system attached to MediaNetwork via Fibre Channel.