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Need some help on hooking a few things up…
Thought this would be a good place to possibly get a little advice on how I should hook a few things up. Here’s the ingredients: G5 2.7 with 3 PCI-x slots – in one slot (the 133MHZ slot) will be Kona 2 card. In another slot is FW 800 card for G-Raid, IOLa is plugged into FW 400 in back of G5. My dillema is this. I have the Tascam FW-1082 board that needs to be plugged in by firewire. If I get another PCI card and put it in slot 2, won’t it be on the same bus as the G-Raid in slot 3? I know I can’t plug the Tascam into the G5’s internal firewire, because it would interfere with IOLa. Or would it? With the Kona 2/IOLa combo, when I’m in FCP is the IOla disabled? Meaning, does the IOLa only work off the G5’s firewire bus when going in/out analog video to/from beta? Seems the Kona 2 card would being doing all the work when I’m acually editing, and would want the control surface of the Tascam. If that’s the case, then I should feel good about plugging the Tascam board into the G5’s internal FW 800.
Maybe I’m talking jibberish, and there’s an easy solution. I didn’t know until recently that slots 2 and 3 of the PCI cards work on the same bus. Thus, my issue.
Thanks in advance.
Marc Rolph
Producer/Director
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Probably not the end of the world for your Tascam to be on the same bus as your drives. Will the Tascam be used at the same time as the IO? If not try the Tascam on the G5 FW800 port, given that the G-RAID is connected to the FW card and the IO is on the G5 FW400 port. You may need a 6-9pin or a 4-9pin cable for the Tascam. I don’t know what type of connector it has.
If this doesn’t work the other option you described is probably the best solution (using an additional FW card). This is going to give you the most seperation of FW busses and the PCI bus should be able to handle that bandwidth. Also, depending on the cards, putting them in slots 2 and 3 allows them to transfer data directly between themselves. (https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=32480)
Hey you won’t hurt anything by trying, and the cost of a FW card or cable is minimal compared to what you have already spent, so you are probably best off just trying and seeing what works best. 😛Mike Peele
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