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by John Davidson on Jul 24, 2012 at 11:04:39 pm |
Hi Everyone,
We're really excited to Frankenstein some of our old hardware into a mac mini video server over ethernet using either a Magma 3T or perhaps the Sonnet Echo. I'm curious if anyone has gotten their hands on one of these and tested it yet? We're leaning towards the Sonnet as the Magma just received Thunderbolt certification last week and is sold out for 6-8 weeks.
Anyone played with the Sonnet? We'd be putting in the Small Tree 6 port ethernet and an Areca 1882x on a mac mini server, but not until Mountain Lion has been out for a few days.
Thanks
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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by Bob Zelin on Jul 25, 2012 at 1:44:05 am |
the real question is -
will the Small Tree PEG6 card, or the Areca 1882x card work with Mountain Lion ? And while we are at it, how about the ATTO R380, R680, H680, AJA cards, Blackmagic cards, Matrox cards, BRU software, all the 10gig cards on the market. Will ALL of these companies put on their website "Mountain Lion certified" ?
Now, THATS the question.
Bob Zelin
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by John Davidson on Jul 25, 2012 at 1:51:37 am |
Probably not. It's not like these companies just have $99 laying around to test an OS that has been available to developers for 6 months. Although somebody on the FCPX forum said that Blackmagic's drivers have been available for ML for a week now. Show offs.
For anyone interested, Sonnet stated to me that the R380 is compatible with their Echo but "Why draw attention to a card that can't be obtained anymore?" they said. Basically anything that is 'thunderbolt aware' is compatible. Magma's compatibility page is less promising.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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by Steve Modica on Jul 25, 2012 at 2:03:25 pm |
Small Tree cards all work on Mountain Lion and with hotplug/unplug over thunderbolt
Steve Modica
CTO, Small Tree Communications
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by John Davidson on Jul 26, 2012 at 5:06:03 pm |
Thanks guys. Steve, just bought the Sonnet Express Pro and a Small Tree PE2G6I. Once they arrive I'll put in a mac mini server and see what happens. Does the manual show how to configure correctly with OS X Server / Mountain Lion?
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by Steve Modica on Jul 26, 2012 at 5:33:52 pm |
[John Davidson] "Does the manual show how to configure correctly with OS X Server / Mountain Lion?"
You just have to load the Gigabit driver from our download page (best to do that before installing the card), then power down and put the card in. The ports will show up just like mac ports in the System Preferenes->Network pane. We have link agg instructions in our knowledge base with screen shots.
Steve
Steve Modica
CTO, Small Tree Communications
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by John Davidson on Aug 2, 2012 at 7:24:09 am |
Thanks Steve. Got my card from Small Tree, the Sonnet Echo Express (it's WAY bigger than it looks), a mac-mini server, and harvested an Areca 1882x w/ ProAvio 8ms / 3Tb drives on RAID5 from one of our suites. Loaded in the ST driver and the Areca Thunderbolt update and amazingly everything is seen and the raid works (600MB/s up/down according to the AJA Speed Test).
Just wanted to report that this stuff is working. I'll probably be bugging you guys tomorrow.
Thanks for your help guys!
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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by Steve Modica on Aug 2, 2012 at 3:23:19 pm |
Someone told me we'd have our new tbolt product on the website today.
Steve Modica
CTO, Small Tree Communications
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by Steve Modica on Aug 2, 2012 at 9:03:26 pm |
ThunderNET is up on the site now.
Steve Modica
CTO, Small Tree Communications
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by John Davidson on Aug 3, 2012 at 5:48:15 pm |
Awesome! PS - Chris wants a raise. He team viewed with me last night at about 9pm his time and now we're all set up.
Thanks!
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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