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1. All three methods have the same result After rebooting the 1960 by any of these methods type lt pdrstart gt at the command prompt to reestablish your normal set of background applications before starting up any foreground applications c winnt profiles all users start menu programs startup pdrstart bat echo off REM REM REM REM REM REM REM REM REM REM Place this batch file in the startup group This batchfile will start up the htssvc and other apps after the 960 is fully up Rules always have wait 960 first always have htssvc next always have the 5 second pause next then ada your own Custom start p SLUT oe walt 960 360 GIF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO FAILED echo SUCCESS start htssvc exe sleep 5 Sua DOLL Seve rem rem start portmap start chgserver REM Add Your applications AFTER this line GOTO EXIT REM Add your apps BEFORE This Line FAILED echo FAILURE np AE Lightworks V I P 4500 Fibre Channel Upgrade Installation Manual Page 17 SECTION 3 SETTING UP THE FIBRE CHANNEL NETWORK Page 18 Appendix B Sample Hosts File c winnt system32 drivers etc hosts Copyright e 1993 1995 Maeresore Corp it This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP IP for Windows NT This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names Each entry should be kept on an individual line The IP address should be placed in the first column followed by the corre
2. and remove 1t from the rack as described in the VI P 4500 Installation Manual 2 Place the Main Crate on a work surface with the front panel facing away from you 3 Remove the front upper cover by unscrewing the 13 T 10 Torx screws holding it in place then remove the rear upper cover 14 T 10 screws 4 Unscrew the single T 10 screw holding each of the two board retaining brackets in place and remove these brackets Lightworks V I P 4500 Fibre Channel Upgrade Installation Manual Page 11 SECTION 2 UPGRADING THE CIRCUIT BOARDS 5 Carefully unplug the two SCSI looms from the Enhanced Disk Recorder EDR boards in slots J9 and J10 these cables are labelled SCSI A MASTER and SCSI B SLAVE 6 Remove the three slot PCI bus that bridges the tops of the two EDR boards 7 If fitted remove the two SCSI terminators from the back of the EDR boards note that they will not be present if the Main Crate was connected to a PDX disk expansion unit 8 Using a T 15 Torx screwdriver preferably magnetised to avoid dropping the screws remove the two screws holding the Master Disk Recorder board slot J9 in place one at the top of the rear bracket the other at the bottom on the outside of the bracket and put to one side gt Be very careful to make sure that circuit boards come out as squarely as possible oth erwise you may damage the motherboard sockets 9 Remove the two SIMMS from banks 0 and 1 They are located side by s
3. destination machine to temporarily interrupt a transfer if the real time media operations are making high demand on the available SCSI bandwidth Control signals are not routed over the fibre channel network but over the existing Ethernet It is therefore essential that Ethernet connectivity is established between machines before any attempt is made to use fibre channel Lightworks V I P 4500 Fibre Channel Upgrade Installation Manual Page 19
4. starts the PDR Access Service 1f 1t is not already started 3 Choose Start Programs PDR Debug Tools Update FC Microcode A window appears Lightworks V I P 4500 Version 2 Installation Manual Page 13 SECTION 3 6 CONFIGURING FIBRE CHANNEL FOR FIRST USE The program asks if you want to continue Type Y The program now reads the new image of the microcode from c profile etc gfcucode img The program automatically copies the old microcode to the file c profile etc gfcucode old Restart the disk recorder in order for the microcode update to take effect 3 3 Configuring Fibre Channel for First Use To reduce the number of variables it is a good idea to configure each participating machine in a standalone condition before connecting it to the fibre channel network This requires the D type loopback connector to be connected to the rear of the fibre channel board The pin out is pin to pin 5 pin 6 to pin 9 l 2 10 Log on as Administrator and run the Configuration Manager Click on the new network icon immediately left of the PAL NTSC window to bring up the fibre channel configuration window Then Click Auto hosts administration for TCP IP name lookup This utility means that you do not have to enter a host table manually When selected the PDR Network Configu ration Service fencs exe automatically administers the file Ci winnt svetem32 drivers etc hosts Do not select Use TCP Checks
5. the requested hosts on the network Normally this will work but if there is a problem you will see the error message Error connecting to lt machine name gt This 1s either because an incorrect Ethernet host name has been entered or because the remote host 1s not running Port Server The Add Remove Machine function in fact writes host names to the file c profile profile hst Every time you start Media Manager 1t starts up the hardware communication program which tries to connect with all the hosts listed in this file The file does not contain IP addresses merely names Windows Networking performs the necessary name resolution automatically It can be quick and effective to enter or delete hosts from c profile profile hst manually using Notepad Page 16 Lightworks V I P 4500 Fibre Channel Upgrade Installation Manual SETTING UP THE FIBRE CHANNEL NETWORK SECTION 3 Appendix A Rebooting the Real Time Processor When NT is performing satisfactorily it can be a waste of several minutes to reboot the entire system A quicker alternative 1s to reboot only the 1960 subsystem l Close down all applications then type at the command prompt lt vdrsvc stop gt fol lowed by lt vdrsvc start gt This procedure 1s only available to administrators and 1s the same as stopping and restarting the PDR Access Control Service in NT Control Panel Services or clicking on the Restart VDR Service icon in the PDR Debug Tools program group
6. 17 If you receive the message Error unknown error error code xxxxxxx it means that the FC card has crashed on boot up usually because no network hardware is present Check that you have correctly fitted the loopback connector reboot and try again Setting up the Fibre Channel Network Do not connect any machine to the FC hub until you have proved it responds correctly in standalone mode using a loop back connector and the lt fcping all gt command as described above 1 Connect up the Fibre Channel network cascading hubs if required For point to point working between two machines no hub is required and unlike Ethernet the cable used for point to point is the same as that used for connection to a hub 2 Check Ethernet connectivity all machines should be visible in each machine s Net work Neighborhood Because of the way Fibre Channel makes use of host tables VIPs and Profiles should be assigned fixed IP addresses on the Ethernet DHCP should not be used on this network Lightworks V I P 4500 Fibre Channel Upgrade Installation Manual Page 15 SECTION 3 SETTING UP THE FIBRE CHANNEL NETWORK 3 Check Fibre Channel connectivity Run the lt fcping all gt command on each machine to check that they can all see each other and have successfully built host tables on starting up For a typical host file see Appendix B on page 18 Only when the above checks are satisfactory should you proceed with Media Manager opera
7. PCI card connected to the Master and Slave EDR cards by means of a three slot PCI bus positioned across the top of all three cards The FC card takes its power from the EISA bus but 1s completely independent of it for its operation The Gigabit Link Module GLM is a small PCB mounted piggy back on the FC board It is the interface between the FC circuitry and the chosen medium in this case copper twisted pair Cable lengths of 5m and 25m are available 25m is the maximum length that will not suffer data loss The cables end in 9 pin D type male connectors For lengths greater than 25m inline copper to optical converters are available These small units connect directly to and take their power from the 9 pin D type on the FC card or on the hub The Fibre Channel hub is a 9 port arbitrated loop arrangement that automatically bypasses any nodes that are disconnected or down The hubs can be cascaded to expand the network if required How Fibre Channel relates to Ethernet and SCSI Fibre Channel is based on conventional TCP IP protocol and therefore has to be configured accordingly Data is transmitted in frames over the Fibre Channel network Each frame con tains among other things the IP address of the source and destination machines and a large payload of media data The transfer is asynchronous The advantage of asynchronous transfer is that it allows for streaming and interleaving of transfer demands and allows either the source or the
8. Tektronix Lightworks V 1 P 4500 Online Editing System Fibre Channel Upgrade SECTION Acknowledgements All trademarks are the property of their respective companies and are used in this manual solely for identifying a particular product for reference purposes only Written by Dave McClure Disclaimer Tektronix U K Development Centre Limited accepts no liability for any consequential inci dental or indirect damages including damages for loss of business profits business interrup tion loss of business information and the like arising from any action or inaction based on information contained in this document Tektronix U K Development Centre Limited reserves the right to vary the specifications of its products and or to revise the documentation at any time without notice Copyright Tektronix U K Development Centre Limited and its associated companies retain all owner ship rights to its products hardware computer programs and documentation Use of a Light works product is governed by the licence agreement supplied with the sale contract Document Revision Status Lightworks V I P 4500 Fibre Channel Upgrade Installation Manual Tektronix Part Number xx xxxx xx Revision 1 04 1st October 1998 Lightworks V I P 4500 Fibre Channel Upgrade Installation Manual Page 3 SECTION TELEPHONE SUPPORT Support Telephone Support Europe Africa and Middle East EAME Telephone support is available from Tekt
9. appliances portable equipment etc Pollution Degree Requirement Level 2 operating environment Normally only non conductive pollution occurs Occasionally there may be a temporary conductivity caused by condensation Lightworks V I P 4500 Fibre Channel Upgrade Installation Manual TEKTRONIX WEBSITE SECTION Lightworks V I P 4500 Fibre Channel Upgrade Installation Manual Page 9 Section 1 Introduction 1 1 Summary This manual describes how to upgrade a Lightworks VIP4500 Online Editing System to enable faster than real time transfers of media files over a Fibre Channel network comprising VIPs and Tektronix Profiles Appendix 3 provides an overview of Fibre Channel as realised in Tektronix Profile and VIP media networks gt Todo this upgrade you have to open the VIP Main Crate and replace various internal components This should be carried out only by appropriately qualified personnel 1 2 Upgrade Procedure 1 Remove the Main Crate from its rack and upgrade the internal circuitry 2 Refit the Main Crate and reconnect the system 3 Configure Version 2 software to operate Fibre Channel 4 Return old parts and update paperwork gt Earlier versions of V I P software do not support Fibre Channel The procedure for upgrading to Version 2 software is described in its accompanying Release Notes and is not duplicated in this manual Before starting this upgrade please make sure that you have everything you need inc
10. ay periodically con tribute information However please note that this group exists primarily for users to talk to each other and so any specific requests for support or information should be directed to the appropriate Tektronix office or local distributor Tektronix Website A number of useful technical and operational documents are available on the Tektronix Web site at http www tek com VND under Online Documentation Lightworks V I P 4500 Fibre Channel Upgrade Installation Manual Page 5 SECTION TEKTRONIX WEBSITE Safety Warnings Safety Terms and Symbols TERMS IN THIS These terms may appear in this manual MANUAL WARNING WARNING STATEMENTS IDENTIFY CONDITIONS OR PRACTICES THAT CAN RESULT IN PERSONAL INJURY OR LOSS OF LIFE i A P o CAUTION CAUTION STATEMENTS IDENTIFY CONDITIONS OR PRACTICES THAT CAN RESULT IN DAMAGE TO THE EQUIPMENT OR OTHER PROPERTY TERMS ON THE These terms may appear on the product PRODUCT CAUTION indicates a hazard to property including the product SYMBOLS ON THE The following symbols may appear on the product PRODUCT 2 DANGER high voltage CAN Protective ground earth terminal Wo ATTENTION refer to manual Page 6 Lightworks V I P 4500 Fibre Channel Upgrade Installation Manual TEKTRONIX WEBSITE SECTION Service Safety Summary Review the following safety precautions to avoid injury and prevent damage to this product or any products conn
11. ected to 1t Only qualified personnel should perform service procedures PERFORMING SERVICE WARNING THESE INSTRUCTIONS ARE FOR USE BY QUALIFIED SERVICE PERSONNEL ONLY TO AVOID PERSONAL INJURY DO NOT PERFORM ANY SERVICING UNLESS YOU ARE QUALIFIED TO DO SO REFER TO ALL SAFETY SUMMARIES BEFORE CAUTION THIS UNIT CONTAINS STATIC SENSITIVE COMPONENTS DISCONNECT POWER WARNING TO AVOID ELECTRIC SHOCK DISCONNECT THE MAIN POWER BY MEANS OF THE POWER CORD WARNING DANGEROUS VOLTAGES OR CURRENTS MAY EXIST IN THIS PRODUCT DISCONNECT POWER REMOVE BATTERY IF APPLICABLE AND DISCONNECT TEST LEADS BEFORE REMOVING PROTECTIVE PANELS SOLDERING OR REPLACING COMPONENTS USE CARE WHEN SERVICING WITH POWER ON WARNING TO AVOID ELECTRIC SHOCK DO NOT TOUCH EXPOSED CONNECTIONS DO NOT SERVICE WARNING DO NOT PERFORM INTERNAL SERVICE OR ALONE WITHPOWER ADJUSTMENT OF THIS PRODUCT WITH POWER ON UNLESS ON ANOTHER PERSON CAPABLE OF RENDERING FIRST AID AND RESUSCITATION IS PRESENT Lightworks V I P 4500 Fibre Channel Upgrade Installation Manual Page 7 SECTION TEKTRONIX WEBSITE Page 8 Certifications and Compliances FCC Emission Control This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital device pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial environment Thi
12. ide in the middle of the EDR board To remove a SIMM press on the metal tabs of the socket and lift the SIMM out at a 45 angle 10 Install the two new 32MB SIMMS Insert at a 45 angle making sure the notch is cor rectly aligned then press in and down until the metal tabs click around the SIMM to hold it in place 11 Carefully replace the EDR board 12 Repeat steps 10 to 14 for the Slave EDR Board slot 10 13 Remove the blanking plate from J the empty slot adjacent to the Master EDR 14 Insert the Fibre Channel card into slot J8 and secure it with the two retaining screws 15 Replace the PCI bus to interconnect both EDRs and the FC board 16 Reassemble the Main Crate and return it to the rack Page 12 Lightworks V I P 4500 Fibre Channel Upgrade Installation Manual Section 3 Configuring Version 2 Software gt If Version 2 software is not installed on your VIP 4500 it must be installed now 3 1 3 2 before Fibre Channel can be enabled See Version 2 Release Notes for full details of the upgrade Updating the EDR Firmware This may already have been done when Version 2 software was installed but 1t does no harm to repeat the process and does not take many minutes The EDR board must be Revision 2 or higher You can determine the revision level of the boards by consulting the Profile log The reprogramming uses the file c profile edr_isp all Do not alter this file in any way as 1t may lead to incorrect
13. luding the tools listed in Section 2 1 1 3 Upgrade Kit Contents Before starting the upgrade please ensure that all parts listed below are present Report any shortages or shipping damage to your supplier immediately Part Fibre Channel Board i O FC loopback connector Page 10 Lightworks V I P 4500 Fibre Channel Upgrade Installation Manual Section 2 Physical Installation 2 1 Upgrading the Circuit Boards CAUTION STATIC ELECTRICITY CAN DAMAGE THE COMPONENTS INSIDE THE MAIN CRATE ALWAYS TAKE ANTI STATIC PRECAUTIONS SUCH AS WEARING A GROUNDED WRIST STRAP AND ENSURE THAT ALL THE EQUIPMENT IS PROPERLY GROUNDED To do this upgrade you will need the following tools Torx drivers T 10 and T 15 long han dled preferably magnetic Anti static mat and wrist strap Small pair of pliers gt Note that in the following steps the board positions are referred to by their slot numbers from J1 to J17 numbered from right to left looking at the back of the Main Crate see Figure 2 1 below E VIP0002 GENLOCK AUDIO DSP SLAVEDR MASTER DR BOARD BOARD BOARD BOARD Figure 2 1 Main Crate Board Slot Numbers The boards are replaced as follows 1 Disconnect all cables from the rear of the Main Crate
14. programming of parts To update firmware 1 Close any applications that may be running on the system including HtsSvc 2 Atacommand line type vdrsvc stop and then press Enter This stops the PDR Access Control Service The service will not stop if any applications are still running 3 Choose Start Programs PDR Debug Tools Update EDR Firmware or double click the Update EDR Firmware icon A window appears 4 The program warns you to shut down any applications that may be running and to stop the PDR Access Service If you have already done so as instructed in steps 1 and 2 type y Otherwise type n and return to step 1 5 The update procedure steps through the reprogramming of the components giving progress information as it proceeds It retries up to three times to reprogram parts in the event of verification errors After reprogramming all parts a summary 1s provided that describes what has been done 6 If parts have failed to program power down the VIP unit completely power it up again and then run the program again otherwise just restart the unit Updating the Fibre Channel Firmware To fully benefit from all the Fibre Channel improvements in this release you should upgrade the microcode on your Fibre Channel board to the current version 1 7 3 To upgrade the Fibre Channel microcode 1 Close any applications that may be running on the system 2 Atacommand line type vdrsvc start and then press Enter This
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16. s equipment generates uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in accordance with the instruction manual may cause harmful interfer ence to radio communications Operation of this equipment in a residential area is likely to cause harmful interference in which case the user will be required to correct the interference at his own expense Changes or modifications not expressly approved by Tektronix can affect emission compliance and could void the user s authority to operate this equipment Canadian EMC Notice of Compliance This digital apparatus does not exceed the Class A limits for radio noise emissions from dig ital apparatus set out in the Radio Interference Regulations of the Canadian Department of Communications Le present appareil numerique n emet pas de bruits radioelectriques depassant les limites applicables aux appareils numeriques de la classe A prescrites dans le Reglement sur le brouillage radioelectrique edicte par le ministere des Communications du Canada EN55022 Class A Warning For products that comply with Class A In a domestic environment this product may cause radio interference in which case the user may be required to take adequate measures Environmental Characteristics CHARACTERISTICS DESCRIPTION e Type Supplemental Data Information Technology Equipment Class Class Supplemental Data Class Grounded equipment Installation Category Requirement Category Il Local level
17. sponding host name The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one space Additionally comments such as these may be inserted on individual lines or following the machine name denoted by a symbol For example 102 54 94 97 rhino acme com source server it 3862 D634 10 x acme com x client host LAT yet localhost fcncs exe Add host entries above this line only fcncs exe Everything below this line will be overwritten by fcncs exe TL LO Lo dol pl LL Zin VIP AGO LAO Ole eA profilei 120416 lege LORE ECO 128 181 1 3 profile2 128 1801 2 gt profilez feo 128101414 protiles 128 L62424 Prot les TCU Lightworks V I P 4500 Fibre Channel Upgrade Installation Manual SETTING UP THE FIBRE CHANNEL NETWORK SECTION 3 Appendix C An overview of Fibre Channel Networking Fibre Channel allows for faster than real time transfer of media files between VIPs and Pro files on the same network How much faster depends on file compression and the amount of traffic both on the FC network and on the SCSI busses of the source and destination machines but typically 3 to 5 times faster 1s realistic Fibre Channel 1s a dedicated media network comprising NW The fibre channel card and gigabit link module E Interconnecting cables dual twisted pair send receive W The fibre channel hub The Fibre Channel card is a Genroco FC 1000PE re laid out to fit in the VIP main crate It is a
18. tion Manual TESTING FIBRE CHANNEL NETWORKING STANDALONE SECTION 3 3 4 Testing Fibre Channel Networking standalone 3 9 1 When the machine is fully booted up all activity in the Profile log has ceased call up the Command Prompt 2 Atthe Command Prompt type lt fcping all gt After a few seconds you should see this message 1 hosts responded to ping over interface gfc0 Response received from address lt your IP address gt lt your name_fc0 gt This has confirmed that your fibre channel is correctly configured and able to send and receive FC data frames If instead of lt your name_fc0 gt you get the message lt no name available gt it means that the host table has not been created Check that you have selected Auto hosts administration point 1 above If you already have don t worry it will sort itself out on the next boot if not before Alternatively you can force a rebuild of the host tables by typing at the command prompt lt fcncs stop gt followed by lt fcncs start gt This stops and restarts the PDR Network Configuration Service Then try lt fcping all gt again Two Possible Problems If you receive the message i960 network appears unavailable it means that your system has not booted fully Check that all activity has ceased on the profile log and try again If still no joy recheck the fibre channel configuration above and reboot Rebooting the real time processor is adequate see Appendix A on page
19. tions Media Manager 1s an Ethernet application and cannot be used to check Fibre Channel connectivity problems directly The use of Media Manager is fully described in the Light works V I P4500 User Manual Version 2 Preparing to Use Media Manager 1 Ensure that Port Server is running on all machines This is a background application that makes it possible to control a machine via Ethernet Port Server is normally started by the pdrstart bat file The Port Server window can be minimised as users do not interact with it directly 2 If Port Server does not start when the machine boots up use Notepad to open the pdr start bat file and look for the line REM start portsrvr Delete the word REM save and exit notepad Port Server should now start on the next reboot When you run Media Manager for the first time a small window will appear in the fore ground called Hardware Communication This window will disappear after about a second leaving a Media Manager display of the local machine only 3 To add more machines to the display click on the network button on the Media Man ager toolbar This calls up the Add Remove Machine window To add a machine click on Add and type its Ethernet name in the New Host Name window the exact name can be read from the Network Neighborhood if unsure Repeat for all the machines you want to access and finally click on OK The Hardware Communication window will reappear as the machine tries to find
20. um When selected a checksum 1s used to aid in error checking but this greatly slows down fibre channel transfer typically by a factor of 15 because of all the extra number crunching it requires The Hostname box shows the Ethernet name of the VIP 4500 host with a unique Fibre Channel identifier appended to it in this case fc0 For example Vip1 becomes Vipi_fc0 Enter dotted decimal IP address in the box provided Contact your network adminis trator for an appropriate address The IP address must be different from the Ethernet address for the machine and must be unique within the FC network Enter a netmask in the box provided A netmask can help speed routing of network traffic Typically use 255 255 255 0 If you have a Profile Video Gateway attached to your network enter a dotted decimal gateway address in the box provided It is safe to leave the address blank if no gateway 1s present Enter a hardware address in the box provided in the range 1 to 120 Every Fibre Channel node board on your video network must have a unique hardware address A hardware address of O zero will allow the address to be automatically configured however this can confuse the boot process if several machines are being started together so it 1s better to assign hardware addresses yourself Click OK then reboot the machine Fora typical host file see Appendix B on page 18 Page 14 Lightworks V I P 4500 Fibre Channel Upgrade Installa
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