Lost serial control of deck

[Jeremy Garchow]

First the easy one…you have the switch flipped to remote on your deck, no?

Do you have a KBox? If so remove it and try the snake of cables and see if that works. If it doesn’t, perhaps your card gave up the RS422 ghost.

[Bob Zelin]

go to http://www.aja.com, find the uninstaller, and uninstall your Kona drivers. Then REINSTALL your drivers.
Bet it works.

Bob Zelin

[Steve Covello]

What Bob said. I have had NUMEROUS loss of RS-422 problems including having deck control up until the moment of record in-point, after which I get a General Error message and a “no Communication” error on the output window. I’ve trashed prefs, cleaned cache, un/re-installed drivers and it would work once, then not work after that.

I messed with reference settings in Control Panel and tried everything until it worked again. Now it works, though I have it set to Free Run, which I’ve never had to do before. I’ve re-seated BB cables, checked termination, shut down and unplugged, and some other things. I find it hard to believe my BB generator is NG since it is also driving my B room without a problem.

Mysterious.

steve covello
double wide post

[Jackattack]

I’m going to bet that the previous comment about uninstalling the drivers, then re-installing the drivers, could solve this issue.

To be honest, I’ve felt my Kona 3 deck controller was buggy from the get-go.

I’ve instead purchased a Keyspan USA28X adapter for my Mac which works flawlessly for my deck control needs… it gives the Kona board one less thing to think about.

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[Sean Davison]

Thanks – The re install worked –

This is an absolute necessity to any of us trying to use these products in a professsional environment. I have similar problems with both Blackmagic and Kona card. Why cant these companies get this to work properly – Avid never has this problem – It is always rock solid with 422 control – Ive never felt confident with 422 control in FCP.