If you try to use the firewire combo card to digitize or for an
intensive application during a DS session I predict crashes, especially
if the firewire is 400 mb/s or higher. If you just want to move prepped
files between systems which is what we use our gigabit cards for then it
might be OK. I do not think the firewire could be used to digitize
during an active DS session.
The original tip I had on this came form a hardware guru in Montreal.
Hint...He is still there;-))
Would someone want to try that and give us their
results??????????????????
One problem is that the PCI busses in the W8000 are divided such that
you do not want resource intensive cards trying to share the same
portion.
Here is a wild idea from his honor P. Murphy. Has anyone installed Vegas
on their DS machine as a digitizing tool? Create a HD Quicktime file
using Vegas and them access it with DS? Now that might work with the
Firewire combo card. If you had trouble during DS you could always
disable the combo card which is easy to do. Anyone???????????
Howard
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf
Of Gregory, Ryan
Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 12:18 PM
To: ds(at)softimage.com
Subject: Re: Sort of OT: PCI Slot
Thanks Howard.
Here's what I got from that. Sfdgsdfgkjasfdglkjhsdfg. :)
Well, not totally, but I'm not as "tecky" as lots of you out there are.
Upgrading is not really an option, so I'm stuck with Compaq. I get what
you
are saying that it just has too much going on to handle that extra card,
but
if I remove the ethernet card I am using and add an
Ethernet/USB2/Firewire
combo card, will that still be too much for it, or does it just have to
do
with how many slots it reads from?
Sorry for all the questions, but I don't know much about this stuff. I'm
learning though.
Thanks.
Ryan
On 1/9/06 2:01 PM, "Chasteen, Howard" <Howard.Chasteen(at)fotf.org> wrote:
> The Compaq W000 Busses just do not have enough resources to handle the
> firewire card if you are already using much of the buss for Emulex,
> Adaptec, Atto, Gigabit and/or Equinox PCI. You could accomplish your
> goal buy moving to an XW8000 and observing the best slot usage and
> configuration. I have done this and it involves buying a new display
> card and possibly Audio card, knowing which drivers to use and lots of
> "insider" info. contact me off list if you are interested.
>
> The real issue with data propagation on computer busses is the
> "reactance" of the circuit path taken by the buss. All wires and
traces
> have capacitance and inductance, both of which tend to distort square
> waves by "smoothing them". This is the effect that the capacitors in
an
> analog power supply have on the rectified voltage out of an AC
> transformer. They smooth the signal more toward the DC waveform.
>
> Once a digital signal looses the sharply defined edge of its square
wave
> it may no longer be detected as a change of state when the signal goes
> from high to low etc. With today's ever decreasing "logic" voltages it
> is becoming very critical to maintain the sharpness of the signal.
>
> Howard C.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf
> Of Benoit Melancon
> Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 8:39 AM
> To: DS(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: Re: Sort of OT: PCI Slot
>
> Hello Ryan,
>
> PCI 4 slot on the Compaq has always been labeled "do not use" in the
DS
> ACSR class ever since I care to remember, with PCI 2 pointed as a
viable
>
> alternative for cards such as the Emulex adapter if you wanted to plug
> the ol' MediArray storage to your DS at the same time as using the
> Adaptec or Atto card in the bottommost slot.
>
> I'm afraid I don't have the technical explanation for that limitation
> though.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Benoit
>
>
>
> Gregory, Ryan wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> I am trying to put a firewire card into my DS. Compaq EVO W8000. I
> have an
>> external lacie drive I want to hook up through firewire since this
box
> is
>> only USB 1.0. The only available slot I have is the third from the
> bottom.
>> It fits fine and reads the drive, but my computer has been acting up
> ever
>> since adding it yesterday. Most of the time it happens when accessing
> our
>> network. This has happened before almost a year ago when the internal
>> ethernet card died and we had to install a new one. We had it in that
> slot
>> and were getting these problems, so we took out the firewire card
from
>> another slot and put the ethernet card there and it was fixed. We
left
> the
>> offending slot empty since I didn't need the firewire card then. I
> thought
>> it might be the card & the slot didn't mesh well, but this is now 2
> cards
>> that don't mesh with this slot. I have changed the IRQ settings to
> every
>> option and still no luck. Am I not supposed to use that slot, or
maybe
> it is
>> corrupt? I'm not much of a tech guy, but I thought if anyone has any
> insight
>> into this, it would be a big help.
>>
>> If I missed anything info that is relevant let me know and I can try
> to give
>> you more.
>>
>> Thanks everyone.
>> Ryan
>>
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