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Anyone else having trouble with Sonnet eSata cards?
Is anybody else trying to use a Sonnet eSata card with their editing system? Specifically a Sonnet Tempo-X eSata 8?
https://sonnettech.com/product/tempo-x_esata8.htmlEver since I installed this card into my system (slot 3 of the original Dual-2GHz G5), I can no longer sleep my system. Both manual sleep, and automatic sleep (which I disabled), cause a complete system crash and require a hard power-down. This is was true under 10.3.9, and is still true under 10.4.3. Sonnet has acknowledged a bug in the automatic sleep firmware, but they haven’t updated it since August.
https://sonnettech.com/downloads/adapter_sw.html#sata_firmware
They claim I am the only person experiencing a problem with manual sleep, so has anybody else seen this on their system?
I would really like to sleep my editing suite at night, instead of turning it off every day.(There are no Sonnet, eSata, or Storage boards, so this seemed like a good place to post, with the Blackmagic card being the other PCI card in my system.)
Thanks!
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David Mallin
Cloudchaser Films LLC
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I installed this card into a dual 2.7 G5 in October. I use it with a Kona LH. I’ve had no problems with it but I don’t think I ever sleep my computer. What are the advantages of sleeping it over just turning it off? Mine boots up in under 30 seconds.
Michael Rothenberg
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I agree. Most companies, including AVID, urge you do DISABLE ENERGY SAVER.
I see no advantage of sleeping the computer. Turn it off.Bob Zelin
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Ok, maybe I should be more clear.. this isn’t just about overnight sleep.
This is a personal studio machine, not in a facility. It gets used for tons of stuff aside from an editing suite.. office work, Photoshop, DVD burning, etc. When I’m not using them, I don’t even power on all the external drives. Previously I probably put the cpu to sleep 10 times a day. That’s my way of working. Now I can’t do it any more. I feel I should be able to work the way I choose to, not work around buggy drivers. Telling me to live with it doesn’t fix my issue.David
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David Mallin
Cloudchaser Films LLC
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there is NO PROBLEM letting your CPU run 24 hours a day ON ALL THE TIME. Back in the stone age of linear editing, when electronics were every unstable, equipment ran 24 hours a day – even on weekends, when no one was at the facility. Fast foward to today – the 21st century – things don’t break or drift like they used to. Macs draw hardly any power – and don’t worry – 3 years from now, your MAC will be totally worthless, so if your MAC can run 24 hours a day for 3 years, on all the time, with no problems – there is no issue. Again, you will not kill your drives, you will not kill the power supply of your computer, you will not heat up your room, and you will not create a huge energy bill for yourself. Just leave your computer on.
Bob Zelin
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I have this card. Once in a while my wife will put the computer to sleep after transfering files from my G5 or something. It wakes up fine. That’s not how it was when I first built the system. Don’t know why it wakes up safely now.
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