Connecting Peripherals
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To connect the workstation to IB network:
h Connect port 1 of the IB network adapter to the IB network. On the HP xw9400 workstation
Port 1 is the port on the right. For information on how to configure the IB adapter, refer to
the Stone and Wire Filesystem and Networking Guide.
Connecting Storage
You can connect your Linux workstation to two types of storage:
• One or more Stone Direct disk arrays that provide storage to individual workstations. Refer to
the Autodesk Stone Direct 2008 Configuration Guide for information on connecting disk arrays
to your workstation.
• A storage-area network (SAN), such as a CXFS volume. Refer to the SAN vendor
documentation for details on SAN configuration.
Consult the Autodesk Web site at www.autodesk.com/discreet-documentation for the latest
version of these guides.
Connecting and Configuring the ATTO Fibre Channel Adapter
Your Linux workstation is configured with a 4-port ATTO Celerity FC-44ES fibre channel
adapter in PCI slot one. On the HP xw9400 workstation the PCI slots are numbered one to
seven from top to bottom. Consult the “
Peripherals Connection Diagram” on page 17 as a
reference for the ATTO fibre channel adapter location.
Connecting Archive Storage
For data archiving, your Effects or Editing 2008 application supports the following devices:
• USB 2 and FireWire® (IEEE 1394) attached devices. They can be formatted as XFS, ext2, ext3,
or HFS (Mac®) file systems. NTFS is not supported.
• Fibre channel devices that use standard UNIX tape device calls.
The fibre channel devices that may be used are the ones for which the vendor confirms the
following:
• The device driver is compliant with standard UNIX tape device calls.
• The device is certified for use with the specific versions of your operating system and kernel,
Linux Red Hat Enterprise Workstation 4.0, Update 3.
W
ARNING
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The 64-bit Linux operating system has a filesystem limit of 8 terabytes. When
configuring your storage, ensure each partition does not exceed 8 terabytes, and that inodes are
correctly configured. Refer to the
Stone and Wire Filesystem and Networking Guide.
