[David Michael]

Crazy. It worked! I’m not nuts though right? That was not intuitive at all and in fact seems like a glitch?

So, I guess my workflow will be – transcode all to DNX35. Keep all AMA clips in a bin for the future. When locked, open AMA bin and highlight all the clips along with the lock sequence – relink with that option selected. That should suffice, right?

Thanks for getting back. I feel like I read this in another thread and tried it or didn’t quite get it and it just didn’t click for me. So sorry if this is a repeat.

-David

[David Michael]

Well, just for anyone who has the problem and searches for it – there is not solution, it’s just part of the card’s hardware. The Blackmagic card is crap for use with FCP if you are looking for any sort of real-time accuracy, though it’s probably fine for other applications like Davinci. Just swapped it out for a Kona LHe+. Our headaches are gone.

[David Michael]

Now we are really getting to the problem here.

That is I believe why these drives were handed off to me – the original system is long gone. They couldn’t even tell me if they were RAIDed originally or how they were originally wired.

Let’s assume I was able to get my hands on a ATTA Bios card, would they just magically work after I plugged them into that?

[David Michael]

More information for you:

The partition type on each of the 22 partitions is “ATTO_ExpressStripe”, which looks to be related to some sort of RAID/Partitionion software.

Both disks have identical partition maps, which may mean these two drives are meant to work in RAID. If that’s the case is there a change in approach?

If they are RAIDed perhaps the do need to be plugged into separate channels on the SCSI card?

[David Michael]

OK, so here I am, covered all the bases:

Open port – terminated
Bus 7 – open, using 5&6

Boot up the system – no kernel panic
Get past login screen – I now get TWO errors (a good sign), unable to initialize each disk.

In Disk utility I can see the computer now recognizes them both (instead of just the one), but I can’t mount the drives (there seem to be 22 smaller grayed-out disks inside of the 2 main disks).

Not sure how to troubleshoot from here, any advice appreciated. Will start by rearranging the cabling.

-David

[David Michael]

Yeah, that is the million dollar question isn’t it?

I’m on a Mac. The drives, according to what I was able to get recognized in disk utility are “Apple partition” map. I know that’s old, maybe even OS9-old?, but hopefully they will mount anyway.

[David Michael]

Thanks again,

Yeah, these are the only two devices. I would give them each a port on the card, but I only have 1 fat-to-skinny scsi conversion cable and 1 terminator.

I bet I’m going to go in tonight and one of those drives will be set to 7. But I feel really good about this information. I didn’t realize that the terminator was necessary, so I never swapped it from the other set of drives. My plan is to match the bus numbers on the new drives to match the other set (which work), wire everything together, terminate, and see what happens.

Anything I should know about the cabling? Does it matter which ports are in/out?

[David Michael]

Thanks Ben, this is exactly the kind of information I was hoping for.

I’ll try this out tonight. I just need some clarification, what do you mean by “terminated”? I think you mean to use the thing that plugs into one bus, but doesn’t go anywhere?

Also, with step 3, is that to be done with the computer on? No right?

Finally, Is there a power up order?

-David

[David Michael]

For anyone who goes searching for something that brings this post up:

I could not get Avid capture to work with a down-converted signal through the deck’s Firewire port.

The solution is to use the Mojo. Mojo Firewire “host” to the computer. Deck settings need to be at S100 DIF RATE (Menu 880), but not with downconverted signal (Menu 894). That was the main problem.

Next problem was with external sync ref, I managed to find a blackburst box here at the office, which got rid of that issue.

Best of luck to the next one out there.

[David Michael]

Thanks for walking me through this – it ended up being the cable. I found the original HDMI cable in the Kona box, which happened to work. Whichever one was originally used was somehow incompatible or plain busted.

-David