Kona System Teast App

[Walter Biscardi]

[laughingman] “Anyone has issue with KONA 3 (Driver 3.1) on Mac Pro (Dual 2.66, 4G ram)
We are getting real slow thruput and system crashes when rendering (FCP)
When we reduce to 2G of RAM and it works fine.”

Did you run the Firmware Update from Apple as described in the Kona 3.1 Read Me file?

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Jeremy Garchow]

What software are you using to run your network drive sharing? Supposedly the latest quicktime update messed with XSan. I got an email from a supplier warning us. It doens’t apply to us, but it’s worth a mention.

Jeremy

[Bob Zelin]

Hi Bill –
you are the first person I know that is running EditShare with 10Gig E. PLEASE PLEASE let me know on this forum how things work for you, with your Kona FCP system.

Bob Zelin

[Moonrabbit]

We were having the same problem a few weeks ago after we built the new system. Normally we would have liked to run with a minimum of 8GB RAM, however we had to reduce the machines to 2GB. It seems it’s the only way it will work right now and get a solid throughput without crashing.

Apple, AJA, and our friends at Virtual Media are aware of the problem and are trying to find a solution.

I have a combined 12GB of RAM waiting in boxes ready to go to work in our two machines!

[Gary Adcock]

[moonrabbit] “We were having the same problem a few weeks ago after we built the new system. Normally we would have liked to run with a minimum of 8GB RAM, however we had to reduce the machines to 2GB”

it is called run the “FIRMWARE UPDATE”

I am working on MP 3ghz with 4 gigs and an 42ES atto card with no issues.

gary adcock
Studio37
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[Don Wilson]

In response to Gary’s post, ATTO states that 2.5 gigs is their current limit on the Mac Pro right now, and is frustrating since AJA have figured it out. I use the UL5D and Kona 3 and tried 4 gigs and got system wide freezes often. Since carving down to 2 gig things are very solid though I notice the difference in thumbnail drawing and some effects. I’ve tried to get a best guess from ATTO and their phone support people aren’t sure about anyting and asked me questions for their education.

Don Wilson

[Gary Adcock]

[Don Wilson] “Since carving down to 2 gig things are very solid though I notice the difference in thumbnail drawing and some effects.”

Don
note that I am using a fibre card and not SCSI, and I have been told that there are differences

Have you bumped up the cache settings inside FCP? It may help the thumbnail issue.

gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflows

[Roland Rudio]

I wonder if CalDigit’s S2VR would have the same issues with 2+RAM like Atto does… I’m thinking of just dumping Atto for CalDigit. Any thoughts? Thanks!

[Moonrabbit]

I have all the latest downloads expect the one’s that are on Apple’s site as of yesterday 9-26-06 loaded. The latest firmware your speaking of is already on my computer.

[Moonrabbit]

I would think beefing up the cache setting defeats the purpose in having addtional RAM.