[Sam Goldstein]

I thought that was the case with older Dual G5’s and prior Macs, but the newer ones were no longer using shared buses. Perhaps I was misled? Can anyone else confirm?

MacPro 2×2.66Mhz, 2GB Ram, LaCie Biggest F800, AJ-HD1200A

[Sam Goldstein]

Well it correctly says “2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM” in About This Mac. I think I’ll reposition them anyway. It can’t hurt the situation.

-Sam

MacPro 2×2.66Mhz, 2GB Ram, LaCie Biggest F800, AJ-HD1200A

[Sam Goldstein]

Hey Walter… I was reading back on some of your posts and discovered that RAM needs to be installed in a certain way. Currently I have 4 512K’s all on the top riser.

1. Am I to understand that I should remove the ram in 3 and 4 on the top riser and move them to the first and second slots on the lower riser?

2. Could this be why I am having a dropped frames issue with a G-RAID on the FW800 and the AJ-HD1200A on the FW400?

3. I still need to know if anyone has successfully used a PCIe Firewire card in a Mac Pro?

Thanks Again!
Sam

MacPro 2×2.66Mhz, 2GB Ram, LaCie Biggest F800, AJ-HD1200A

[Sam Goldstein]

Thanks for thoughts guys…

But I have tried putting a G-Raid on the 800 port and the deck on the 400 port and it dropped frames quicker than when I tried to capture to the system drive. Remember, I’m using DVCpro50 and DVCproHD footage. I can get away with short clips, but not an entire 30 minute tape…. I must have tried 10x last night to get it to work with both the system drive and the G-RAID.

Any further insights???

(Incidentally, I’m using my G-Raid instead of the F800 because the F800 enclosure had a CMOS Battery Failure, but the G-Raid should be faster for this stuff anyway.)

MacPro 2×2.66Mhz, 2GB Ram, LaCie Biggest F800, AJ-HD1200A