Mac Pro EFI updates fixes Kona…and ATTO?

[Aja Sales department]

Hello,

You will also need our latest v3.1 driver, which is available on our website for your particular KONA card. Not sure how this firmware update affects the ATTO…

Thanks,

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AJA Video Systems
(530) 274-2048 Intl.
(800) 251-4224 US
sales@aja.com

[Gary Adcock]

[AJA Sales Department] “You will also need our latest v3.1 driver, which is available on our website for your particular KONA card. Not sure how this firmware update affects the ATTO…”

so far so good,
running the new Version 3.1 software, updated boot rom, and I am running a ATTO 4es card with a K3 and 4 gigs of ram installed on a 3GHZ MacPro- it has not crashed yet and the machine is rendering properly (running the Nvidia 7300 graphics card)

gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflows

[Fergus Hammond]

No kidding?! Wow, that’s great news. Did you have problems with the ATTO card before the EFI update? I just spoke with ATTO and while they knew the EFI update was out, they didn’t have any hope that it would fix their problem. They said a new ATTO driver from them would be needed. From your experience it sounds like they might be wrong. I wonder if our friend in Australia has tried it yet:

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=98&postid=860492

I do like that AJA seems to be very well connected to Apple. Clearly, they knew about the EFI update before it was released and that’s great.

regards,
fh

[Mark Maness]

[fergush] “I do like that AJA seems to be very well connected to Apple. Clearly, they knew about the EFI update before it was released and that’s great. “

Isn’t great to know that there are companies out there that still believe in customer support and service. I have a Mac Pro system being built by the fine folks at ProMax. They caught the error before shipping and got the update from Apple and the new Kona drivers BEFORE they shipped my system. Isn’t that AWESOME!

GREAT JOB!!!

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
http://www.schazamproductions.com

[Don Wilson]

ATTO UL5D in my Mac Pro with Kona 3 crashes over 2 gig of ram. Sometimes it took an hour or so but it does. Reverted back to 2gig. Atto says they’re in testing on a new driver and will post on their confusing site.

Don Wilson