Apple Final Cut Pro - Manual (Page 2)

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Hardware Setup
Once you have properly installed all the pieces listed earlier, follow the steps below to
configure the Xserve RAID hardware component.
Setting up your Xserve RAID
Once your Xserve RAID has finished its initial drive indexing after being powered on for
the first time, and all lights are green, do the following:
1 Connect an Ethernet cable to the RAID controller (either one or both).
2 Connect each of the Fibre Channel connectors on the controllers of the Xserve RAID to
the connectors on the PCI Fibre Channel card installed in the G5 computer.
Important: Make sure both Fibre Channel cables are properly connected and both
channels are in use.
3 In Applications > Utilities, open Disk Utility. Select and drag both volumes of the Xserve
RAID into the RAID window and build the RAID set, creating one volume. This volume
should now appear on the desktop.
4 In Applications > Utilities, open the RAID Admin utility.
5 Locate and select your RAID from the given list, then click Create Array. If your Xserve
RAID is not on the list, click Add System, and select it from the Xserve RAIDs found on
the network.
6 Set up both sides to be RAID Level 5. Let the RAID be constructed.
7 In the RAID Admin utility, select the new RAID, then click the Settings button for the
RAID and log in to allow you to view the current settings of the RAID.
8 In the System tab, change the system name to a unique name.
9 In the Fibre Channel tab, set both the upper controller and lower controller speed to
Automatic.
10 In the Performance tab, set both the upper controller and lower controller Write Cache
to Enable and the Read Prefetch to 8 stripes.
11 Click OK to apply all the changes.
12 Quit the Admin utility.
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