Enabling InfiniBand Drivers on Linux Workstations
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Take note of the following guidelines:
• On IRIX, you may be required to purchase tape device driver support from SGI to use SCSI or
fiber channel archiving devices.
• On Linux, you can use USB 2 and FireWire® (IEEE 1394) attached devices to save data archives
generated from your Effects or Editing application. These devices can be formatted as ext2,
ext3, XFS, or HFS (Mac®) file systems. NTFS is not supported.
• On Linux, fibre channel devices that may be used are the ones for which the vendor confirms
the following:
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The device driver is compliant with standard UNIX tape device calls.
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The specific version of your operating system and kernel is supported.
• While Autodesk Media & Entertainment makes no certification statement about any device,
the following SCSI devices have been tested and found to be reliable when connected using an
ATTO Fibre Channel to SCSI Bridge 2390:
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Quantum LT03
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Quantum DLT8000
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Quantum DLT7000
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Sony AIT3 SDX-D700C
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Sony AIT2
• The software initialization file (init.cfg) for your Effects or Editing 2007 application contains
examples for the “ClipMgtDevice Tape” keyword to help you set up the appropriate block size
value for your tape device and define a text label to identify the device in the Archiving
module. Please refer to the documentation from your archiving device vendor for guidelines
on the actual block size to use.
Enabling InfiniBand Drivers on Linux Workstations
InfiniBand (IB) drivers are now certified for IBM 6217SC/DC, HP xw8400 and HP xw9400
workstations. The drivers are installed on all Linux workstations by the DKU. If the DKU
detects the IB hardware, the chkconfig flag for IB drivers is set to ON. If you add an optional IB
HBA after the DKU was initially installed, the chkconfig flag for the IB drivers will not be
properly set.
The following procedures describe how to use the InfiniBand configuration utility to set the
chkconfig flag to ON for the IB drivers and configure the IP address and netmask of your
Infiniband interface.
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