flame9514IRIX

Discreet Logic Flame version 9.5.14 for IRIX. Valid licenses for software and for 3rd party drives to use as Stone framestore. Works perfectly on my Ocane dual R12k 300MHz MXE 2GB ram and my fibre channel array (10x 72GB).

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ollieslats (2009-02-05)

Wow!
Will this Lic work on a Octane2 V12?
Thanks!!!
ollie

waldemar72 (2009-02-05)

Hello Ollie! Of course it should work. You can check the PARADOX directory and read license file - it's for Octane, Octane2 and Tezro as well. Remember - Octane 2 with V12 will be much better than my machine. Good luck!

waldemar72 (2009-02-17)

Nice to meet you again.
I bought a very cheap EMC Clariion array badged Siemens-Nixdorf with 10 x 18GB 10k RPM Fibre channel drives and then swapped it with 10 x 72GB drives wchich I bought on few auctions on eBay. I also bought 2 new EMC LCC (controler cards for array) - at the end I had the array with 2 copper ports to connect it to my Octane. On Octane side: I bought XIO fibre channel card with 2 copper ports - then I connected it with 2 copper FC cables (3 meters long). All cards I use are 1Gb. And now the best part!!!: drives I use are normal FC drives!!! Thanks to gaadbr!!! I extracted needed string and placed it in needed file swr-license (you can find it in this torrent). NO NEED FOR LICENCED DRIVES FROM DISCREET!! After flame install you MUST copy that file to your /etc dierctory - and all your drives will be seen as licenced!!! You must also copy file DL_license to /usr/local/flexlm/licenses. During install do not forget to agree for installing stone&wire.
Do not even think of using XLV/XVM under flame!!! Diecreet uses it's own proprietary filesystem for framestore and it needs to access to drives directly!!! When you install Flame and all needed licenses are where they need to be restart your system. After restart login as flame_9.5.14 and you'll see opened console window, now at the prompt type: flame. You'll probably see some error (in my case flame was looking for libInventor.so.3 and then libz.so.1 libraries in many places (you must instal inventor from your media and zlib from freeware.sgi.com - be sure to have these libraries in one of places where flame looks for it). When you complete all dependecies try again typing: flame you should see starting flame and then error considering framestore.
So: in the same console login as root (i.e. su then press enter, then type root password, enter once again - now you are root - be carefull). Go to directory up (cd ..), now you are in directory /usr/discreet. Go to sw directory (cd sw). Now execute sw_config (just type sw_config and enter). Here you have util to arrange drives in storage with GUI. When your file swr-license was copied to /etc you should see all your available drives as licenced (if not they will be marked "unlic"). Then you mark "add" and "create" buttons and just mark needed drives - program counts whole capacity and shows you. When your'e done just click "save" and that's all. After next restart of system, when you'll try start flame ... it will start!! But in my case it was not so very simple, my array has 10 drives and to channels, and each channel sees all 10 drives so system (and sw_config too) thinks it has 20 drives. The hint is to pick drive 1 from first controller, drive 2 from second controler, drive 3 from first controller and so on. The next trouble I met was lack of access to the framestore from system. That was really problem because I have only Octane Personal Video card (EVO) and not Octane Digital Video. You can capture movies under flame only via digital video!!! so I had to capture movies under IRIX via EVO but I had no access to array (whole used as Flame framestore). Capturing uncompressed video requires MUCH space (?bout 1GB/minute of SD PAL video) and you must have fast enough drives (just like my array - via 2 FC channels it could read 180MB/s and write 160 MB/s!!!). So I decided to make XVM stripe on 4 first drives (XVM not xlv!!! xlv has no ability to choose which drives must be used by which channel) and from next 6 drives I crested framestore. Works perfectly!!! Drive test inside Flame shows ability to access 160frames/s. I just digitize movies in Medirecorder to my xvm stripe, and then in Flame I import them to framestore. There is no other way.
SO FORGET EVEN TRYING TO USE XLV/XVM STRIPE AS FRAMESTORE!!! IT WON'T WORK.
GOOD LUCK. AND DO NOT HESITATE TO ASK AGAIN. IT MUST WORK!!! I HAVE FLAME UP AND RUNNING AND IT IS REALLY BEAUTIFUL!!!

waldemar72 (2009-02-17)

And the last thing.
I think the array should be JBOD rather then RAID, you must have access to all drives directly.

waldemar72 (2009-02-18)

Hello Aistulf!
You're welcome. Just give me your email adress and I reply to you.
Considering xlv/xvm...
You must understand that Flame 9.5.14 has no ability to use your drives as framestore via xfs filesystem which is native IRIX filesystem. When you create xlv or xvm stripe on these drives xlv or xvm writes it's labels on each of drives in that stripe. Then you must create filesystem (xfs) on that stripe to use it (only from IRIX). Flame in that version enables only use it's own filesystem (stonefs) on framestroe which is proprietary and unique (for example it's one level filesystem - so no directories and subdirectories..). The only way to create it is use of sw_config mentioned above. When you use that utility on drives with xlv or xvm labels and filesystem sw_config detects it and refuses using these drives - because it tres to create it's own labels!!! So if you've created xlv or xvm stripe on these disks before, you must uninstall filesystem from that stripe, remove all stripe information about stripe and remove labels from drives (xvm is much easier to use than xlv because it has it's GUI - XVM Manager available on IRIX media to install). When you add drives under sw_config it creates it's own stripe (automatically). Stone filesystem is the only choice for Flame. BTW it's significantly faster then normal (xfs) filesystem via xlv or xvm (I tested it!!). So good luck.

waldemar72 (2009-02-18)

Hello.
It's normal that tiles (which represent drives) are white unless they have not unlic mark - it means they are licensed and not added to any stonefs partition. You must check "add" and "create" gadgets and now when you click first tile it should change it's colour to that one which represents partition. When you add all disks then "save" it. The trouble with offset error - it means drives are not equal sizes. How to fix it - look at your email box. Good luck again.

waldemar72 (2009-02-19)

You say you had stonefs working so what happened next? What did you do?
When you want to create stonefs again you first must "clear" drives under sw_config, and then once again "create", then "save". Also remember your SGI must have static IP number (for example 192.168.1.102) and under sw_config you must use last block of IP as ID.

waldemar72 (2009-02-19)

Under flame login, in console window try:
cd /usr/discreet/sw
sw_df (it will display information of aany installed s&w partitions - if you will see data about partition i.e. size in blocks available space for frame and so on it means you have mounted partition) - so you must try:
sw_unmount all - it will unmount partition.
Then under sw_config right click under each desired tile and chech partition info - delete all partitions you can.
You also should check under IRIX if there are any installed partitions on these drives - for example simply initialize them.
But first you must try to start Flame and read what it says. Also read last logs from /usr/discreet/log - it's usable source of information. Do not surrender!

ollieslats (2009-02-24)

@waldemar72
Ive got flame where it will come up to it looking for the Stones, I have a old media 100 external drive, that I was using with Effect/Flint as a framestore, I just want to get this running cheaply, then spend $$$ on real disk..I get this from the sw_log;
SW_config Log;
SAVING DEVICE INFORMATION FAILED. ioctl SWR SET CONFIG failed to partition 0 ( dev/swr00) usable_disk:vendor segate, s/n 3ce0f1j3 is not licensed
there are too many unlicensed disk in the array.
I have put the stone patch in etc/, but I think the problem is that they r formated for a "framestore", which if I understand what U R saying, I need to FX those drives and let SW prepare them, is that right? thanks again for everyones input, I could do this with out your help.
ollie slats

ollieslats (2009-02-25)

@waldemar72
I keep getting, "there are too many unlicensed disk in this array.
( stone+wire 2.6.5)
Ive stopped stone+wire, Ive unmounted all, I'v put the file in Etc/... I've fx -x the dives.
help... Im So CLOSE!!!

ollieslats (2009-02-25)

The media 100 drives are Rorke Data raid 4 disc, came from a 5 year old Media 100 editing system.
Just using them for set-up testing, not big enough for real work.

ollieslats (2009-03-07)

@waldemar72
I keep getting, "there are too many unlicensed disk in this array.
( stone+wire 2.6.5)
Ive stopped stone+wire, Ive unmounted all, I'v put the file in Etc/... I've fx -x the dives.
help... Im So CLOSE!!!
can no one help me with this?
thanks!
ollie

ollieslats (2009-03-10)

never mind, got it.

ollieslats (2009-03-17)

Im not getting any audio during playback, is there a way to set it to use the Octane2 audio?
I do not have the lucid 8824. Does flame "turn off"
the SGIs built-in audio... How would I get that back-up?
thanks for your help.
cool program!

ollieslats (2009-03-18)

OK I did get audio out at the line-level (RCA jacks)
Not sure way the PC speaker outs or earphone are not working.
thanks

grrrrrrg (2009-03-23)

Why are two torrents with their comments deleted ?
I mean for Flint 6.1.3 and Cracking guide ?

grrrrrrg (2009-03-25)

Are the comments also there ?
Why was it deleted ?
Regards

ollieslats (2009-04-09)

Some of the other Discreet links have disappeared, so I thought I would ask here,
I'm looking for a lic. String for
Flint 7.1 for the o2,the last version That works on the O2 I have flame 9,5,14 on the Octane2, but would like to set up flint on the O2
thanks for your help!!!!
ollie

bazed_71 (2009-04-24)

Guys, i'm searching for the rhel 3 update 3 iso on the discreet ftp, but as you know it's not browsable :(
I found a link to: rhel-3-U3-i386-ws-disc1-srv-64.iso
but it's the wrong iso, it's for server installs only, so the kickstart.cfg is wrong. Anyone know the correct link for the wks iso?

aparansg (2009-12-03)

which version of irix is needed for installing this? I am having a bit of troubles with this. would appreciate if u can help me a bit with this. mail me @ [email protected]. from there i can mail u from my normal id.
thnx

go2low (2011-05-16)

Hey waldemar72, this torrent totally rocks, best Compositing System in the world ;-) but no seeders... I'm just interested in the Stone-Lic Folder, because I already have the Paradox Version but without this Stone-Lic file. I guess it's just a simple small file, may anybody can seed this one.

waldemar72 (2011-06-21)

Hi everybody!
As you can see I've uploded some useful (I hope) IRIX related torrents. If you have any other (working) IRIX soft - please upload!! Now I also have MSC Patran 2006r1 for IRIX, but did't manage to run it. Any CAD/CAM software is welcome (Catia or Pro/Engineer 2.0 Wildfire for example), Foundry Nuke, Adobe Framemaker 5.5.6, Nichiman Mirai, Liberty Paint, TvPaint 3.6, Toonz, etc.
Now i'm looking for Barco Creator 7.2. I had it but lost. There is torrent but 0 seeders. I've found it also via emule but again.. 0 seeders.