Lost firewire connections

[Aaron Neitz]

1) did you power down the ENTIRE system? (including pulling the cord so that the PMU resets)
2) can you get the Io to work again?
3) I know with our DSR-1500 there’s a blurb somewhere that if you connected it to a FW bus while everything was powered on, there was a chance of frying the bus.
4) I don’t imagine you have a PCI firewire card in your system… because then you could connect to that and see if your internal bus was shot.

[Aaron Neitz]

…and wait. You say DSR-11 and then DVCPRO50. The DSR-11 is DV25 only. DV50 is a purely Panasonic thing.

[Ben Insler]

Sounds to me like your mac got confused when you shifted around all those cables while everything was running. Go to View::Refresh AV Devices. That should clean everything up. If not, shot down and restart with only the hardware connected that you want to use.

Best,
Ben

[Rennie Klymyk]

Hi, I just tried pulling the plug, no change there.
I’m trying to get the IO going again but it is not responding, the system is looking for firewire dv ntsc now even though I reset to dvcpro 50 from Io through sdi 8bit to dvcpro 50 codec. (this is my normal configuration as we use dvcpro for aquisition). Looks like I have to trash prefs again to try to re-configure the Io. I just need to capture dv for a short job. All this when I’m in the middle of a renovation in the edit room. Everything was disconnected and rolled in a corner while a wall was removed. Now I’m set up in 1/2 the space with a plastic barrier keeping out the dust from the reno, I have to re-wire the dvcpro deck, lo etc just to try it when all I want to do is the dv job, then rewire everything when it is in place after the remo.

I don’t have a pci firewire card to try and I sure hope I didn’t fry any buses. It seems to me last time I captured dv I had a bit of hassle but all I had to do was disconnect the Io.

[Rennie Klymyk]

Hi, I usually am set up for dvcpro 50 so I guess the FCP restore app saves those settings. When I manually deleted the prefs I got rid of that setting and was able to set all for dv ntsc but no recognition of the hardware. I should be able to wipe all prefs and just with one firewire into the dsr-11, configure dv ntsc but no go so far.

[Rennie Klymyk]

Thanks Ben, this does nothing. I actually had it all disconected and just connected the dv deck, opened fcp and tried to reset capture and project settings but was unable to do so. I’m ready to re-install tiger and fcp on a new hard drive and go from there. I need to author a dvd from this project too.

[Jeremy Garchow]

Hit control-q and choose dv NTSC (or PAL) with your DSR-11 powered up and on before you launch FCP.

Avoid the io settings because you are not using it.

Jeremy

[Rennie Klymyk]

I tried it but I’m not getting any option to choose dv ntsc.
I get:
remove from dock
open at log in
show in finder
or
open

if I choose open I get the same dialog ie: unable to locate external device…….

If I go directly to the fcp app icon and not the alias in the dock I get a bigger list of options but still no dv ntsc option. If I choose open there I get the same old same old again.

[Jeremy Garchow]

Sorry, Rennie, open FCP first, then hit contol-q and choose dv ntsc with the DSR-11 already powered up and connected via firewire.

Jeremy

[Rennie Klymyk]

Yes this does set it all up properly but I got this far before using the easy set-up link but it is still not seeing the firewire device.
I’m thinking I could take a hammer and really smack the 6 pin connector on the end of the cable into the firewire socket it should connect.
I’m starting to worry that CharlieX2 may be right and my firewire bus is blown. I’ve never heard of this before and I would think there must be some type of firmware zap or something to wake up the bus.
Anyone know of a good firewire card for pci-x? It would be worth picking one up at this point.