just what I needed, thanks for sharing!

Good advice. Looks like my ebay friend will see a few more orders coming their way. Thanks for the reply

Hello all - so our ISIS 5500 has been regularly having drive failures lately, probably one failure every 3 months, and getting spare 2TB drives is getting more difficult to find. I've purchased a few off ebay sellers who say they pulled them from retired 5500 units. These range from $300-600 each depending on the seller. My question is this: If

This was a life saver. Thank you!

This thread deals with similar issues that I have just gone through this past week. Here is my forum I created with my solution at the end: http://community.avid.com/forums/p/198640/890080.aspx#890080 My problem ended up being a bad nablet plugin and I had to revert to an old one (Nablet XAVC XDCAM 4.0.3). I think Nablet XAVC XDCAM 5.0 is to blame.

SOLVED: reverted Nablet XAVC XDCAM 5.0 plugin to 4.0.3 So after taking a step back to rethink this thing, I eventually figured out it was a bad Nablet XAVC XDCAM Plugin that introduced the random serious of corrupt clips onto various ISIS workspaces. We have 6 ISIS clients/edit bays, and I do all the transcoding from client #2. When the frenzy of editor

I did notice that in the Network Interface Settings on the Nexis client were checked to 3 ports - PRO/1000, Ethernet 1218-LM, and 1210 Gigabit Network Conneciton. I left only the PRO1000 checked. Path diag tests are below. I then re-AMA linked to media and it still found corrupt spots with the errors listed earlier in this thread. Next I deleted that

Dual 1Gbit Intel(R) PRO/1000 PT Dual Port Server Adapter

Jeroen, here are the results from PathDiag: File Access Method: Automatic Writes then Reads sequentially Transfer size - 4096 KB Transfer rate - unlimited Max File Size - 1000MB

Here is the specific workflow that is causing these errors: -Copy media from nearline storage to ISIS 5500. -From client/editor workstation, AMA link to media on ISIS..transcode to dnxlb -eventually transcode will stop with either "FAILED TO GET SAMPLE SIZE FROM AMA PLUGIN" or "SWDC_CONSISTENCY CHECK FAILURE". -scrub through AMA