MRT Review - More testing, more issues
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2017 8:29 pm
I paid to recharge my license yesterday so that I could play with this system today.
1. Re-activate System Not working
- this was due to a well overdue update to the vip site that handles the license renewals
- when it came back online, they MRT software was able to recognize that the license had been recharged without having to copy and paste keys between the website...a definite improvement
2. Western Digital ROM
- tried to save the ROM from a Western Digital drive today, saved with an error (seemed odd seeing that there were no issues with PC3K)
- tried to write the ROM to a donor Western Digital PCB with a bricked ROM, but could not do so via terminal, as I would do with PC3K
- after wasting 30 minutes with MRT, moved over to PC3K and was able to do it within 2 minutes and was able to get the drive working
3. Data Explorer Not Seeing Destination Drive
- got the Western Digital drive mirroring channel 0 drive-to-drive to a SATA connected destination drive without any issues
- started a second instance of MRT for channel 1 with the plan to mirror a Seagate drive to another SATA attached destination drive, but once again, the system will only show the destination drive in the source drive list and not the destination drive list. So, moved it over to DDI and mirroring without any issues
Another thing I'm noticing with this system is that a lot of users in their forum are getting frustrated with the lack of support on the forum. It does seem like it is weeks between posts by MRT staff and the posts are usually vague or non comprehensible.
1. Re-activate System Not working
- this was due to a well overdue update to the vip site that handles the license renewals
- when it came back online, they MRT software was able to recognize that the license had been recharged without having to copy and paste keys between the website...a definite improvement
2. Western Digital ROM
- tried to save the ROM from a Western Digital drive today, saved with an error (seemed odd seeing that there were no issues with PC3K)
- tried to write the ROM to a donor Western Digital PCB with a bricked ROM, but could not do so via terminal, as I would do with PC3K
- after wasting 30 minutes with MRT, moved over to PC3K and was able to do it within 2 minutes and was able to get the drive working
3. Data Explorer Not Seeing Destination Drive
- got the Western Digital drive mirroring channel 0 drive-to-drive to a SATA connected destination drive without any issues
- started a second instance of MRT for channel 1 with the plan to mirror a Seagate drive to another SATA attached destination drive, but once again, the system will only show the destination drive in the source drive list and not the destination drive list. So, moved it over to DDI and mirroring without any issues
Another thing I'm noticing with this system is that a lot of users in their forum are getting frustrated with the lack of support on the forum. It does seem like it is weeks between posts by MRT staff and the posts are usually vague or non comprehensible.