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HVX200-Harpertown/Leopard Mac Pro Glitch?
ust got my new 3.0 Harpertown Octacore system running Leopard with a Kona 3 Card from ProMax. I’m having an issue that has confounded tech support and everyone else….. think it might be a software glitch? The following is happening:
1. The HVX200 set in “device mode” via firewire only works via the rear firewire port.
2. When the HVX200 is plugged into the front port the camera doesn’t show up on the desk top and there’s no connection between the camera and the computer. The camera and the 32 gig card do however show up in the Profiler.
3. When the HVX200 and Sony DV cameras are hooked up via the FW front port in DV mode, the camera does connect and has machine control in log and capture mode.
4. If the camera is plugged into the front port and in device mode during startup, the computer will hang up and not boot. When you turn the camera off, start up continues.
5. Other FW drives seem to work fine via the front port.
6. The problem also persists when I start up with a a backup startup drive.I’m posting this to see if others are having this issue and/or to see if anyone has any ideas about what could cause this. Thanks in advance!
Bill Paris
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Interesting, did you cross post this on the HVX200 forum?
I have read were you should never have the HVX200 powered on when connected via firewire to a computer and you are starting up the computer. You could blow the HVX200 Fire wire port- both ends want to supply power thru the firewire and the computer always wins. It could be a “fail safe” reason the computer is hanging up when you are powering up. Which would be pretty smart design on Apples part, thank you Apple.
Let us know your solutions. The MacPro is our next upgrade, right about June ’08.
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Yes I did cross post on the P2 and FCP forums to get some different opinions. Since the camera is in the “Device” mode I don’t think it will send power via firewire? I believe the computer should see it as a drive…… if the camera were set to “Host” mode I could see your point about having it hooked up during start up. Thanks for the info though, I’ll look into it more as I work my way through the problem.
bp
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Just a thought (you may already know), but you don’t have Perian installed on your system do you? Causes havoc with P2 and AVCHD transfers.
Ben
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