Product specifications

Electrostatic Discharge Precautions

Electrostatic discharge (ESD) can damage disk drives, cards, and other parts. Avid recommends

that you perform all procedures in this chapter only at an ESD workstation. If one is not

available, provide some ESD protection by wearing an antistatic wrist strap attached to chassis

ground (any unpainted metal surface) on your server when handling parts.

ESD and handling PCIe Cards

Always handle cards carefully. They can be extremely sensitive to ESD. Hold cards only by their

edges. After removing a card from its protective wrapper or from the server, place the card

component side up on a grounded, static free surface. Use a conductive foam pad if available, but

not the card wrapper. Do not slide the card over any surface.

Proxy Video Requirements

If you are having any problems with the viewing Proxy video, or the Proxy Viewer, make sure of

the following:

• Make sure the E: drive is shared as “Read only”.

• Make sure that the user that your using on the Remote Client system is also present on the

OS level of the AirSpeed 5000 server.

• Make sure that the proxy status of the clip in the Remote Console states that a proxy is

“Completed”.

• If the Proxy Viewer does not appear when you right-click a clip and select View Proxy from

the menu, it might be because the Proxy Viewer is hidden from view behind other windows

on the screen. If so, minimize and maximize the AirSpeed 5000 Remote Console application

to bring it back on top.

Working with Media Drives

This topic contains information on all of the tasks required when working with media drives.

This section contains the following topics:

• “Handling Foreign Disks” on page 77

• “Identifying and Replacing Failed Media Drives” on page 77

• “Moving an Entire RAID Array to Another Chassis” on page 125