Well there in lies the rub. They were able to capture on it but I will have to be careful to check that media. At least it does playback okay which was the original reason to get it.
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Bogdan Grigorescu <bogdan_grigorescu@...> wrote:
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> Subject: [Avid-L2] Re: Lane Configuration on MacPro OS 10.6.8 for IO Express?
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> Well I ran the test you suggested and I get 166.6MB/S Write and 205.8MB/s read. I tried this with the slot 2 where the aja io express HBA is configured for one lane and then 8 lane and there was virtually no difference in AJA DMA speed test. WTF? It seems like the expansion slot utility has no effect and I did restart after changing the configuration as the utility prompts to. The unit is a mac pro 1.1 dual core Intel Xeon 2 processors and 4 cores buss speed 1.33 GHz. I can't seem to google and find out how to tell if this is a Harpertown, Nehalem or whatever. The units were purchased around 2009 ish. The speed test seems a lot slower than your results. I did confirm when the digital cut stalls the console indicates dropped frames. Time for AJA support.
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