Setup guide

XR RAID Enclosure XR RAID Enclosure

XE (EBOD) Expansion Enclosure XE (EBOD) Expansion Enclosure

XE (EBOD) Expansion EnclosureXE (EBOD) Expansion Enclosure

Cabling for additional enclosures

To FC adapter on workstation

First storage assembly Second storage assembly

Connecting Archiving Storage

Visual Effects and Finishing applications support archiving to USB 2.0, FireWire

(IEEE 1394) and fibre

channel devices. This includes filesystems, VTRs and tape drives. This section discusses the requirements for

filesystem and tape drive devices. For information on connecting a VTR, see Connecting Video Components

on page 13.

NOTE This section does not apply to Lustre workstations.

Filesystem Devices

USB 2.0 and FireWire (IEEE 1394) attached devices must be formatted with one of the following filesystems:

XFS, ext2, ext3, or HFS (Mac

). NTFS is not supported.

NOTE Care must be taken to ensure that the filesystems used to store archives are reliable, stable and properly

backed up so as to protect the archive integrity. This functionality is not provided by the application.

SCSI Tape Drive Devices

SCSI tape drives can be connected to a fibre channel port of the workstation by way of a fibre-channel-to-SCSI

bridge, such as the Atto FibreBridge 2390D. The tape drive device must meet two criteria. First, the device’s

driver must accept standard UNIX tape device calls. Second, the device must be certified for use with the

currently supported version of the workstation operating system and kernel.

While Autodesk Media and Entertainment makes no certification statement about any tape drive device,

you can use the “Tape Drive Test” plug-in in Autodesk SystemCentral to test SCSI tape drives for compatibility.

For more information, see the Autodesk System Central User Guide.

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