I took your advice, Jeroen and it worked! Here's what happened in a nut shell: I had to get the correct MegaRAID Storage Manager installed but the GUI wouldn't work. So my senior technician had to access it through command prompt using the Storage Command Line Tool (StorCLI). From there we could see that the spare drive was assigned as Unconfigured

Thank you, Dom, for your suggestion. I rebooted the chassis and the message changed from "invalid spare drive slot" to "Missing spare drive". Still trying to figure out where to go from here.

Thank you, Dom. It is supposedly an Avid drive with Avid firmware. The only difference is it's a 2 TB drive instead of 1 TB. SHouldn't the system still recognize it and just use 1 TB of it?

My ISIS 5500 is a 16 x 1TB storage. I've been looking for 1TB AVID drives to get to replace out a failing one, but I haven't been able to find them anywhere. Instead I got some 2TB WD drives that were supposedly taken out of a known good chassis.However, the bad drive just failed a few days ago and I tried to install one of the 2TB drives. After

== SOLVED == For anyone who is interested, I solved this problem. As it turns out Avid does not work well with the Windows firewall. I disabled the Windows firewall (my system is standalone) and Avid now has 0 problems accessing the XML settings files in my projects, opening projects or anything else.

After a clean install of Win 7 (64-bit), a fresh install of MC 7.0.2 and a fresh install of Isis Client 4.2.0, I am getting the error message "Error on .xml setting file. '<path name to xml file on Isis>' Reverting to the .avs file". I get it every time I select a project to open off my Isis server. After quite a bit of troubleshooting

I am using Media Composer 7 Interplay edition yet it is not allowing me to "Enable Dynamic Relink" in settings. I click but it does not select. Why would this be happening?