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We moved the Pegasus R4 to my colleagues edit suite, as he had already upgraded to the latest Mac Pro. The RAID is only a 4 disk configuration, which makes it easy to move from 1 location to another. Transferring the Pegasus R4 was thankfully easy as it was not that heavy. However, my curiosity had to be satisfied.
The only real difference was FCPX, which seems to run much faster. This was mainly due to lack of support from Avid, ( Avid now supports the new Mac Pro) and it really didn’t seem to benefit Adobe as of yet.
#PROMISE PEGASUS R4 ALL BLUE NOT SHOWING UP PRO#
What was the advantages working with a Thunderbolt 2 connection and the new Mac Pro? Upgrading to the new Mac Pro was not something I had considered yet. This was great news, and I felt fully confident that this would be a route I would like to go. I did not have this issue with either FCPX, Adobe or Avid. Many FCP7 projects had the dreaded “media offline” greeting. FCP7 had trouble with connecting with media. Initially, I was impressed at the speed gains, and the simple ability to jump back into my projects.
The first step was to connect the Pegasus R4 it to my Mac Book Pro to take advantage of it’s Thunderbolt 1 connection. Once we had swapped out the drives, I was anxious to test it out. Plus, I would have the added benefit of having 2, Thunderbolt 2 ports for all that glorious speed. Then be fully readily available on the new Mac Pro. This allows me to migrate all my projects and media with a simple swap. The RAID simply allows you to swap out the hard drives in my Mac Pro, and drop them into the Pegasus R4. The Promise Pegasus 2 R4 seemed like a great solution as it’s diskless. Then a local editor and colleague read my posting, picked up the phone and recommended I take his Promise Pegasus 2 R4 Diskless on a loan. The post production community is very interactive on twitter, and was a great deal of help. The Twitter community was very helpful and provided suggestions to me. I needed a solution, and therefore my search began.
I have many projects that are archived, and some still active on my old tower. The main reason for my search was to help me migrate from my old Mac Pro tower, to a newer Mac Pro. A few weeks ago, I wrote a posting about this on my personal blog. Over the past few months, I have been searching for a Thunderbolt RAID that would suit my needs. I took a closer look at what the new R4 has in store. The new, black R4 is an enhancement to the existing silver Pegasus R4 line that had a Thunderbolt 1 connection. I really would like my FCPX libraries and data back, or failing that, to be able to start again.Last October, the company Promise Technology extended its external Pegasus Thunderbolt RAID storage line with the new “R4” that comes driveless and on top features the new and very fast Thunderbolt 2 connection. I might add that all those commands return zero RAID drives seen.Īnybody know more about this stuff. Hi, Thank you for contacting Promise !! Kindly attach the Mac system profiler to this case, please find the instructions below, - Mac system profiler (Click Apple Icon > About this Mac > More info > System Report > Choose 'File' & 'Save') Open MAC terminal and then type promiseutil and then type the following commands one at a time and save the output of the commands to a file and attach that file to this case id for review: subsys -v enclosure -v ctrl -v phydrv -v array -v logdrv -v event event -l nvram Note:- In the above command " event -l nvram " it is lower case letter 'l' but not a numeric 1 (which I did), but they have been quiet since I sent the report back Promise web support said to do the following.
#PROMISE PEGASUS R4 ALL BLUE NOT SHOWING UP UPDATE#
I probably need to do the firmware update again, but cannot till I can see the drive. When Mac re-started the Pegasus wouldn't show up in finder, disk utility or promise utility. On screen instructions said process would complete after a reboot and power off. In light of this, I decided to give it a firmware upgrade, following instructions to the letter. The Promise RAID box normally turns off when MacPro turns off, but lately it has been rebellious and stays on.