Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Re: [Avid-L2] Re: SAS Link issues to Mojo DX

 

Thanks for the input Tony. Generally we've been able to get it to link by unseating the mini SAS on the back of the mac, then doing a hard boot. But it's irritating to have to do that once or twice a day.

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On Aug 10, 2011, at 12:18 PM, Tony Capelli wrote:

> John, the only two things that have changed since we had this issue were the
> way we fire up the system, the way I explained, and that we no longer have
> an editor here, working in this suite, who routinely crashed the system due
> to the fact he'd have 5 programs running with Avid up and would be streaming
> a Man U football game all at the same time. Perhaps it's the fact that the
> system isn't being constantly blow up anymore and the constant crashes were
> causing the Mojo DX to get cranky. I don't know. I agree that it doesn't
> make sense. When we'd have this issue though after you started up we
> wouldn't see the Avid/Mojo kick over from SD to HD until we unplugged
> everything, plugged it all back in and turned all external items on after
> Avid was up. We'd even try turning the Mojo DX off just to do a restart on
> that but that causes a kernal panic on our system. Our scope and monitors
> are on 75's so I don't know. Not sure I'd like to recreate the issue just to
> test my theories because I'd be the one who'd have to fix it, or wait four
> days for our grumpy Avid guy to come by and fix it. Perhaps it is the Avid
> Gods who have been keeping the system up and running, I don't know.
>
> Thanks
> Tony
>
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 11:41 AM, johnrobmoore <bigfish@pacbell.net> wrote:
>
>> **
>>
>>
>> Are you saying that having an external scope connected to the mojo HDSDI
>> out will effect the link between the Avid computer and the mojo hardware
>> connect by SAS? Having the scope turned on or off doesn't have any
>> relationship to the SAS connection. What if you put a 75 ohm terminator on
>> the mojo HDSDI out would the mojo not be recognized? I find this very hard
>> to believe but I won't doubt your experience with it. Could there be any
>> ground loop type issues in your system? It really sounds like it's an
>> intermittent issue and having the peripheral gear on or off should have no
>> bearing on this. Can you reliably duplicate the behavior 10 out of 10 times?
>>
>>
>> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Tony Capelli <tcapelli@...> wrote:
>>>
>>> Yes, I have had this in the past. What I found that works here is if you
>>> have any scopes or client monitors turn those on AFTER everything else is
>> up
>>> including Avid. Our Avid reseller and tech who installed our systems came
>> in
>>> and looked over our Mojo and system and couldn't find anything wrong. He
>>> says that the Mojo DX has been a pretty stable piece of equipment and
>>> thought someone must have been messing around in the back of the system
>> and
>>> jiggled something loose. The first time it happened he fixed it by just
>>> unplugging everything and plugging it back in. Pretty soon I was doing
>> the
>>> same quite often and I know no one has been behind the system. Trying
>>> different things when it would happen I discovered, for me at least, that
>>> anything plugged into Avid needs to be turned on after Avid is up. Also
>>> everything plugged in should be turned off after you have quite Avid, I
>>> actually turn everything off after the Mac is shutdown entirely.
>>>
>>> Good luck
>>> Tony
>>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Greg Huson <Greg@...> wrote:
>>>
>>>> **
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Almost every time we boot the media composer with the mojo DX, we have
>> to
>>>> reset the cable between the CPU (mac) and the Mojo, then reboot, to
>>>> establish a 'host link.'
>>>>
>>>> Anyone else seeing this problem?
>>>>
>>>> gh
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>>>> Greg Huson
>>>> Secret Headquarters, Inc
>>>> Post Production / Production
>>>> Culver City, CA
>>>> 323 677 2092
>>>> www.DigitalServiceStation.com
>>>> greg (at) SecretHQ.com
>>>> facebook.com/greg.huson
>>>> www.SecretHQ.com
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