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Posted by Smarty on 02/19/07 01:14
Spex,
My original and correct point was (and is) the Parallels cannot see or use
the 4 500GB drives in my MacPro and instead only makes use of a small, slow
virtual disk unsuited for video. For some reason I have yet to understand,
you took exception to this original statement. Your exception was clearly
erroneous, your claim that my argument was invalid was erroneous, and your
follow up reply then began NAME CALLING.
My post was intended to point out to those like Mike who have yet to take
the $4000 MacPro Quad Xeon plunge like you and I did that all is not so
smooth and seamless as it is claimed to be when running video apps across
Bootcamp and Parallels.
These technical limitations are ***OF COURSE*** very obvious to me and to
you as well, but it certainly is not at all obvious to people like Mike who
don't own and don't use these products but are considering purchasing them.
Whether it takes a genius to figure it out or not is irrelevant. This is all
about experience and has little or nothing to do with genius. It is intended
merely as helpful information, no more, no less.
Not only does Parallels ***not*** provide any support whatsoever for other
internal drives, it also does ***NOT*** allow access to external Firewire
drives. Moreover, the Parallels support for USB connected drives to the Mac
is very flakey based on a lot of trials I have done here, with Mac drives
mounting mostly reliably (when MacDrive 6.5.1. is installed) and
PC-formatted drives creating all sorts of problems with Parallels. For
example, the drive mount and dismount / eject synchronization between the
Tiger OS and the virtual Parallels / Windows XP OS has made several of my
drives corrupted and unreadable.
These comments may differ from your experience, and if so, I certainly
welcome any insights or experiences / tips you have to offer. What I do not
welcome or accept is harsh, argumentative, and technically erroneous
comments like your last 2 replies. Since I don't allow either potty mouth or
name calling with my grandchildren, I certainly won't allow it from some
person on the Internet like you who apparently talks first and thinks
afterwards. You seem to have a real anger management issue and revert to
very childish, rude, and vulgar behaviors when caught in an embarrassing
mistake.
I would very much appreciate it if you do not reply to any of my posts in
the future.
Smarty
"Spex" <No.spam@ta.com> wrote in message
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> Smarty wrote:
>> joke for video work.....FAT32, 4GB max, etc.
>>> We use MacDrive in Bootcamp and Parallels which makes your argument
>>> invalid. For $50 it is a no brainer.
>>>
>> I also use MacDrive in Bootcamp. You misinterpreted what I said.
>> MacDrive offers ***NOTHING*** to solve the problem I cited, namely, that
>> Parallels cannot see any of the attached real hard drives, but only sees
>> its' own virtual drive, which is tiny, slow, and FAT32. Maybe it's your
>> argument that is invalid. ;-)
>>> http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive6/bootcamp.asp
>
> Parallels only blocks access to internal drives.
>
>>>
>>> Parallels is fine for office apps and testing cross platform web
>>> applications. Parallels limitations are known and graphics/video
>>> support is one of them and Parallels make no bones about that. What is
>>> really required is GPUs with virtualisation technology too.
>>>
>> Exactly, and is ***NOT*** suited for doing video work, my original point.
>>
>
> The point is why try then bitch when it doesn't work? It's pretty fucking
> obvious that virtualisation is not exactly ideal for video work. It
> shouldn't take a genius to work that out.
>
>
>>>> Smarty
>>>>
>>>>
>>> With a screen name like that you are asking for trouble...
>>
>> Thanks for pointing that out.
> Pleasure. You might have better luck with IamnotassmartasIthinkIam as a
> screen name.
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