Rafterman

I have a similar setup because I'm utilizing the Sata/SAS backplane for a project. Do you know what pins on P1 or P2 have to be jumped to get the power supply to fire up? Thanks!

I've tried placing an autorun.inf calling a simple batch file to test this, and even though autoplay is turned on, nothing is happening. [autorun] open=autorun.bat icon=notepad.exe action=autorun.bat

Thank you! I've been looking into this. Can you elaborate on how this would leave my system vulnerable?

Hello fellow fans! I created a really rough cut video of how I built an 8-bay Atomos Sata Caddy Cage on our ingestion server in our studio. Please excuse the video, it's of poor quality for I did it on the fly and the noise in the server room is bad! Anyway, the cage is up and running and works well as a hot-swap after we come back from our shoots, but I need to complete the project by creating a script that does the following: When an Atomos SSD Caddy is inserted into the cage I'd like the system to know that it is indeed an Atomos Caddy. (I can trigger off the fact that it's the only time an exFAT drive is inserted into the system) Here's the workflow in a nutshell: 1. Insert up to 8 drives into the bay (hot plug) 2. Drive insertion triggers a batch file/script that copies the files into a specific folder on our production server (my AME Watch folders) 3. Verify that the files have been successfully copied to the server (I'll use robocopy or freefilesync - this is easy) 4. (I may choose to format the drives after the copy, but that's after I'm comfortable with the verification process) 4. Simply "hot-pulling" the drives for use on the next shoot Here are some details about the system: OS: Windows Server 2019 Motherboard: Supermicro Server Motherboard C7P67 REV 1.03 RAM: 32GB DDR3 CPU: Intel® Core™ i5-3570 Processor | 6M Cache, up to 3.80 GHz Drives: -1 260GB SATA SSD BOOT - (The cage I built) supports 8 SAS/SATA 2.5" and now My Atomos Master Caddy drives (what a relief!) SAS Drive Cage Backplane: Taken from an HP ML350 G5 rack server (and modified to fit in 2-5.25" drive bays) (two SF-8484 connectors fan out to 4 SATA Connectors each, totaling 8 Devices) Cage Connection to MB: (Qty2) SF8484 32-pin SAS fan-out connector to 4 SATA cables directly to the available 8 SATA ports on the MB (there are 8 onboard, plus I have another PCIe Raid Card if needed) Thanks in advance for your help! I scoured the web and couldn't find anything. Rob Blanda, CaddisArt Inc. The (very crude, noisy and boring) video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1UUuB9TTdU (I'll make a new one once I can complete the scripting) Thank you all very much for helping to guide me!

Hi, everyone! My first time joining and posting. LTT has been great! I have a question that I cannot seem to find the answer for. I built a custom 8-bay SAS/SATA 2.5" drive bay for one of our video production workstations. I would like my cameramen to come back and simply insert the drives (from their shoot) into the system and walk away. What I want to accomplish is for the system to trigger a batch (or series) of batch files that will copy the video footage files to a watch folder for immediate transcoding. (Watch folders and batch files I have completely covered - no worries there). However, I would like the system to "autorun" a batch file when a drive (or many drives) are inserted into the bay. Is there a way to do this? I am good with batch files, but really don't have much in the way of programming other than HTML/CSS. I know there are ways to do this with USB, since windows will first ask you what you want to do when removable drives are inserted. What I am looking for is a Hot-Swap SATA solution - particularly one that can differentiate the drives as they are inserted to run different scripts. This can be either by file system, drive letter (assigned by windows) or the specific SATA connector it's connected to (any of these will work in this case). Here's the workflow in a nutshell: 1. Insert up to 8 drives into the bay (hot plug) 2. Drive insertion triggers a batch file that copies the files into a specific folder on our production server (my AME Watch folders) 3. Verify that the files have been successfully copied to the server (I'll use robocopy or freefilesync - this is easy) 4. (I may choose to format the drives at this point, but that's after I'm comfortable with the verification process) 5. Simply "hot-pulling" the drives for use on the next shoot Here are some details about the system: OS: Windows 10 Pro Motherboard: Supermicro Server Motherboard C7P67 REV 1.03 CPU: Intel® Core™ i5-3570 Processor | 6M Cache, up to 3.80 GHz Drives: -1 260GB SATA SSD BOOT - (The cage I built) supports 8 SAS/SATA 2.5" and now My Atomos Master Caddy drives (what a relief!) SAS Drive Cage Backplane: Taken from an HP ML350 G5 rack server (and modified to fit in 2-5.25" drive bays) (two SF-8484 connectors fan out to 4 SATA Connectors) Cage Connection to MB: (Qty2) SF8484 32-pin SAS fan-out connector to 4 SATA cables directly to the available 8 SATA ports on the MB (there are 8 onboard, plus I have another PCIe Raid Card if needed) Thanks in advance for your help! I scoured the web and couldn't find anything. Rob Blanda, CaddisArt Inc.