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Mac Pro – PCI lane count question
Hi all,
The scene is this…
8 core 3ghz mac originally set up for FCP with AJA Kona 3 card, Apple Raid Card and ATI Radeon HD2600 XT grfx card. Everything is great but I got the chance of a 3 month hire if I could add AVID functionality. Easy, avid and I go back 15 years. MC 2.8 and an SDI Mojo on a separate boot disk and it’s all cool.
PCI cards fitted thusly….
Slot 1: ATI Radeon card
Slot 2: Empty
Slot 3: Kona 3
Slot 4: Apple Raid cardNow, the Avid Unity tech comes in to install an ATTO fibre card and says he had to remove my AJA card (from slot 3). I really need the AJA card. There are 4 slots on the mac and I need to know how many PCI lanes are required by the ATTO card, the AJA, the Radeon and the RAID card so I can re-configure the allocation to support the FC card AND the AJA.
Hope this makes sense and appreciate any info available.
Kris.
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Ok, narrowed it down.
Can I run the Radeon card on 8 lanes? This would solve my problem. If not it looks like it would be best to buy a second Mac for the Avid setup.
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