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Author Topic: DCP Hard drive formatting and EXCEPTION ERRORs Frank A Cianciolo Film Handler Posts: 15 From: Clinton, Michigan USA Registered: Oct 2013 posted 10-24-2015 04:51 PM                        I love the DCP-O-MATIC program. I've gotten quite good with it and enjoy making promotional ads, music and policy DCPs. Here's an example of my animation and music in a "welcome" policy piece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kg6GLPq26A I have only one problem. DCPs that I delete from my IMB and then later try to ingest again often won't re-ingest. I get an EXEMPTION error. What does that mean? How might I avoid it? I have an NEC900c - and am ingesting material through the usb port from a 1TB hard drive.  |  IP: Logged Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 10-24-2015 05:12 PM                     Which Server/IMB do you use with/in the NC900C? - Carsten  |  IP: Logged Frank A Cianciolo Film Handler Posts: 15 From: Clinton, Michigan USA Registered: Oct 2013 posted 10-24-2015 05:18 PM                        SX-3000S2K-N2 GDC - Standalone 2K IMB w/ HDMI & 2TB Panel Mount Storage for NC900C  |  IP: Logged Frank Cox Film God Posts: 2234 From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada Registered: Apr 2011 posted 10-24-2015 05:29 PM                        Are you sure that isn't a EXCEPTION error? If that's what it is, I think that indicates a bad spot on the distribution hard drive (or whatever you're ingesting from).  |  IP: Logged Frank A Cianciolo Film Handler Posts: 15 From: Clinton, Michigan USA Registered: Oct 2013 posted 10-24-2015 05:50 PM                        Oh yes - EXCEPTION - my mistake - Interesting, I just checked and noticed the hard drive is formatted MS-DOS (FAT), but the partition is Mac OS Extended. It's strange that it *usually* works. Maybe I should reformat another drive and partition both MS-DOS (FAT) and try re-ingesting after tonight's shows?  |  IP: Logged Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 10-24-2015 06:30 PM                     You are probably mixing partition scheme with format. A partition can never be MS-DOS/FAT AND Mac OS Extended at the same time. You may have MBR partition table + Mac OS Extended format though. ISDCF drive format recommendations are here: http://isdcf.com/papers/ISDCF-Doc3-Disk-Drive-Recs-ChangesShown.pdf Best option for commercial mass distribution is MBR partition table and ext2 (or ext3) format with inode size=128. ext2 or ext3 is a bit of a pain to create on both windows and Mac OS systems, not possible without extra tools of varying robustness. Most servers nowadays cope well with reading NTFS, and if you are coming from windows, NTFS is usually easier to create/copy to if you know it works for your system. Most systems create GUID partition maps nowadays per default when partitioning an empty disc. Creating MBR needs special attention/procedures and works only on drives up to 2TB. Now I still wouldn't understand why you only get this error when reingesting a DCP that previously ingested without any issue... Maybe there is a bug in the IMB software that creates incomplete database entries when deleting DCPs. It may still happen due to a wrong ingest media format, if it really only happens with DCPs you create yourself and ingest from a disc with a strange formatting or partition scheme. - Carsten  |  IP: Logged Frank A Cianciolo Film Handler Posts: 15 From: Clinton, Michigan USA Registered: Oct 2013 posted 10-24-2015 06:49 PM                        Thanks for the info and link - unfortunately your reply and the link are mostly over my head - but maybe this info will help - Here is the info on the hard drive: Name : Hitachi HDS5C3020ALA632 Media Type : Disk Partition Map Scheme : Master Boot Record Disk Identifier : disk1 Media Name : Hitachi HDS5C3020ALA632 Media Media Type : Generic Connection Bus : USB USB Serial Number : 123456789012 Device Tree : IODeviceTree:/PCI0@0/EHC1@1D,7 Writable : Yes Ejectable : Yes Location : External Total Capacity : 2 TB (2,000,398,934,016 Bytes) S.M.A.R.T. Status : Not Supported Disk Number : 1 Partition Number : 0 Here is the info on the partition: Name : DCP_DRIVE Type : Volume Disk Identifier : disk1s1 Mount Point : /Volumes/DCP_DRIVE File System : Mac OS Extended Connection Bus : USB Device Tree : IODeviceTree:/PCI0@0/EHC1@1D,7 Writable : Yes Universal Unique Identifier : EA2E5056-4E1F-3547-BD97-92F4E6084150 Capacity : 2 TB (2,000,398,901,760 Bytes) Free Space : 653.29 GB (653,291,036,672 Bytes) Used : 1.35 TB (1,347,107,864,576 Bytes) Number of Files : 763,162 Number of Folders : 896 Owners Enabled : No Can Turn Owners Off : Yes Can Be Formatted : Yes Bootable : Yes Supports Journaling : Yes Journaled : No Disk Number : 1 Partition Number : 1 UPDATE: I just successfully re-ingested a DCP that was getting the EXCEPTION error by putting it on a new HDD with a partition formatted MS-DOS (FAT)!  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 10-24-2015 11:52 PM                     James Gardiner has a decent video on how to create EXT2/EXT3 drives on either Mac or Windows computers by basically using Ubuntu (Linux). Not by installing the other OS (unless you want to on a separate partition) but by running the OS right off of an image of it. F-T isn't allowing me to post the link (something about it having problems in the past). But if you go to his web site, and search for recent posts or even DCP Windows Mac you should find it.  |  IP: Logged Frank A Cianciolo Film Handler Posts: 15 From: Clinton, Michigan USA Registered: Oct 2013 posted 10-25-2015 01:44 AM                        Thanks Steve - I thought I had it all working - but my MS-DOS (FAT) partition still doesn't seem to work on the bigger DCP files - I started doing some research from Carsten's post and was beginning to think I need to go Linux(which maybe I still should!) - but for now, I'll check out the video!!!  |  IP: Logged Frank Cox Film God Posts: 2234 From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada Registered: Apr 2011 posted 10-25-2015 01:57 AM                        There is a maximum file size of 4gb (4,294,967,296 bytes minus 2 bytes) with a DOS FAT32 formatted drive. So if your DCP exceeds 4gb less two bytes, it won't fit onto a FAT-formatted disk, even if there is otherwise unlimited space available.  |  IP: Logged Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 10-25-2015 07:43 AM                     It may be that the GDC is able to read HFS volumes, but not in the most robust way. I assume your are using a Mac to copy the DCP to your drive? FAT(32) is okay as long as your individual FILES are not larger than 2/4GBytes. That will usually work for trailers only. Even a decent short will be larger than 4GB. Note this does not mean the full DCP folder size, but only the individual MXF files in it. If you pack a DCP into a ZIP or other archive format, the single ZIP file may run against that limit, while unpackaged, no single MXF may come close to it. You can install Fuse for OS X/fuse-ext2/NTFS-3G and use ext2/3 or NTFS as well for ext2/ext3 and NTFS read/write support. Both are a bit wonky for writing, but if you are careful enough, they should work. I regularly write DCPs to NTFS and ext2 drives from my Mac. If you restrict drive use for DCP copying and not general use, it should be okay. Some external drives for Mac come with the commercial version of NTFS-3G (Tuxera NTFS for Mac), which is faster. I found it on a Toshiba USB drive. Bootcamp Windows or Windows/Linux in virtual machines are other options to write to NTFS or ext2/3 drives (fast and safe). Steve - James missed the point in his video to create an MBR partition table. His video shows todays default GUID partition table being used. I hope he'll be able to fix it in the video. The video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6rGDYoNXi0 - Carsten  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 10-25-2015 12:41 PM                        Maybe the OP would like to rename this thread? It's becoming clear that this is not a DCP-o-Matic related problem at all, but rather one with his combined server/IMB not liking HFS+ and maybe some other non-ISDCF approved journaling filesystems. Agreed with Steve that Ubuntu is a very useful way of handling the full range of filesystems. All the computers in our booths are partitioned to dual-boot into Windows and Ubuntu for precisely that reason. You can add the capability to read and write HFS and HFS+ volumes to it as well (from a terminal window, enter "sudo apt-get install hfsprogs"). Once done, GPartEd* will create pretty much any partition table and filesystem combo you could ever want, and Nautilus will copy files to and from it. * GPartEd is preinstalled on the live CD image, but not on a permanent hard disc installation of Ubuntu - you have to add it ("sudo apt-get install gparted").  |  IP: Logged Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 10-25-2015 12:52 PM                     Indeed. The reason for his issue is not DCP-o-matic, but the drive he is using exclusively to copy the DCPs he created with DCP-o-matic, in contrast to commercial distribution drives that come with the proper format and do NOT cause these issues. - Carsten  |  IP: Logged Frank A Cianciolo Film Handler Posts: 15 From: Clinton, Michigan USA Registered: Oct 2013 posted 10-25-2015 02:20 PM                        THANK YOU EVERYONE - this is a problem I have been dealing with for a couple years - In the end I would just remake DCPs from their original .mov files - looking forward to fixing this problem!  |  IP: Logged Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 10-25-2015 02:44 PM                     What Mac OS X version do you run? Do you have a bootcamp or a virtual windows installation running on that Mac as well? As long as your DCP MXF files do not grow larger than 4GB, you can continue to use a FAT formatted disc. Sooner or later you will run into trouble with larger files, and you will need to use either ext2/3 or NTFS format. - Carsten  |  IP: Logged

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