Re: DS Update

["Seth Isaac Buncher" <seth_buncher(at)hotmail.com>]

Hi Paul,

It only takes a few moments to flash the box.  But since Tewksbury has 
scores of programmers and Montréal has less than a handful, I can't imagine 
that dual-boot would last for long, maybe one or two releases at the most.

Warm regards,
Seth Isaac Buncher


> From: paulingvarsson(at)mac.com
> Reply-To: DS(at)Softimage.COM
> To: DS(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: Re: DS Update
> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 19:59:52 +0000
>
> Does the dual boot work? I know avid are charging for it currently.  Even 
> if it is not currently supported you can actually successfully go between 
> DS and Symphony?
>
> If so how long does it take to re flash the nitris hardware each time??
>
> Paul
>
>
> On 25 Jan 2006, at 19:41, Sylvain Labrosse wrote:
>
> > When the dual-boot Symphony and DS will be supported, which it is not
> > currently indeed, we are going to use a single firmware programming, so
> > no need to reprogram the firmware of the Nitris DNA hardware.
> >
> > Sylvain Labrosse
> > Avid DS Support
> > Escalation team
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> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf
> > Of Randall L. Rike
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 11:19 AM
> > To: DS(at)Softimage.COM
> > Subject: Re: DS Update
> >
> > " is it true that they won't actually support it?????"
> >
> > Curently, dual-boot is not supported.  The DNA can flash forward to
> > Symphony Nitris, but the DS software isn't guaranteed to be able to
> > flash the DNA backward.  A future version ius supposed  to handle this
> > correctly.
> >
> > Randy
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