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adding firewire devices corrupts io la
Hey kids
we have an IO LA on an intel macpro quad 2.6, and everytime i change the firewire devices around, like hook up our m10u for capture, or add a firewire drive, i lose the IO. Final cut gives me a beachball when i go to play anything (which stops when I unplug the IO from the firewire port)
what i have had to do is shut the machine down, change arounf my firewire devices and restart
I have each device using its own port as follows:
Dual drive raid venus ds3r using fire 800 to the rear of the machine
sony m10u OR acom data 250 gb using firewire 400 to the rear of the machine
IO LA uisng fire wire 400 on front of the machine
is this right? is it always gonna be like this? if so, this bites (i thought firewire was “hot swap” no?)
please help here
thanx in advance
bee eph
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3 Replies
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You can hot swap, but quit FCP first (you shouldn’t have to shut down the machine). you wouldn’t pull a firewire drive out without ejecting would you? The io really wants it’s own firewire bus anyway, it’s best for you to get a FW bus card if you have the card slots space in your computer and put the io on it.
Jeremy
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the only firewire 400 device on your system should be the AJA I/O LA – and NOTHING ELSE. If you demand to have something else that is Firewire 400, you MUST use a FW card in your MAC. If there is no room in your MAC, sorry – . The same rules apply to the AVID Adrenaline and AVID Mojo products as well.
I have no idea of where you will find a PCI Express Firewire 400 card that is compatible with the MAC Pro.
If you say “how do other people do this” – they use FW800 via the FW800 buss, or use SATA, or Fibre Channel, or SCSI. No one is using FW400 drives or FW400 devices AND an AJA I/O box on the same native buss. Like I said before, neither is anyone using a modern AVID product either.
Bob Zelin
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Thanx
i started looking for a firewirecard before i even started my reply
bee eph
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