Dying A Little Digital Death
No, it’s not that kind of little death. If only it were. I’d feel much better right about now.
Mere moments after I walked in the door at work today, we took a power hit. The UPS that’s supposed to keep our Avid powered up shrieked its monotone shriek as the whole thing went down and rebooted. And when it came back up, it showed me copious error messages claiming to have lost all media on Drive E.
This is a bad thing. This is a very bad thing.
The new PC-based Avid system stripes media across two SCSI drives, E and F. It doesn’t stripe them redundantly, however, so if you lose E, well…you’re F’ed. I called Avid tech support and they helped me out very quickly – and it turned out that the error message I was getting required manually deleting two files from Drive E and then restarting so the machine would re-index all the media on Drive E. That’s it. Turns out this isn’t that uncommon. Turns out E wasn’t F’ed. Turns out I didn’t lose any media.
Hey, Avid, thanks for the help. And please come pick up your heart attack at your earliest convenience. I’m done with it.… Read more
