Well I tried shot gunning and moving the io express to slots 3 and 4 which have 8 lane configurations but I get the death screen on boot if the aja io express hba is in anything but slot 2. I haven't removed the ati radeon 1900 from slot 1 because then I'd lose my computer screens. I did remove the atto celerity in slot 3 and the extra video card in slot 4 also a radeon but a 2300 or some such. with nothing but the 1900 in slot 1 and the aja hba I still get death screens when it's in slot 3 or 4 with nothing else in. The computer boots for a while with the spinning grey wheel then death screen writing. Oh well so I change the lane configuration to give slot 2 8 lanes unfortunately that drops slot 1 to 8 lanes also. Things do seem to be working but when I tried a fake digital cut using local mode I still get a stall roughly 90 seconds in. This is a video mixdown one video layer sequence with a stereo audio mixdown. Media is on our medianet unity connected through fibre and the atto celerity card. I'm going to copy the media to an internal drive just to see but I think they already had the same results with that before. Doesn't seem like the lane reconfiguration changed anything performance wise. Of course I guess the radion 1900 card is now only getting 8 lanes but I don't know how much that would play into digital cut performance. Unfortunately I only have a single internal drive right now so I don't know if that will support a 220x video stream playback. I've had okay luck in a pinch with this type of media drive in my normal sndx. I'm trying to eliminate the unity and or fibre as a contributing factor in the equation. Oh well more fun on a Saturday night than humans should be allowed to have. ;-)
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Mark Spano <cutandcover@...> wrote:
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> In my experience with AJA cards in general, a four lane slot is the
> minimum. Anything less and I've had results like yours, plus video/audio
> going out of sync. Definitely try reconfiguring to a 4x slot if you can.
>
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> On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 3:01 PM, johnrobmoore <bigfish@...> wrote:
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> > Thanks for the link. I don't see anything addressing anything specific to
> > open io or the io express. It does mention all 4 slots as mechanical 16
> > lanes. I assume that means depending on the expansion slot utility
> > configuration any slot can have 16 lanes but not all slots can have 16
> > lanes at the same time on this circa 2009 ish macpro. I will have to dig
> > through more aja manuals and contact aja support to see what they
> > recommend. Is anyone successfully running mc 5.5.3 with the io express OS
> > 10.6.8 and outputting dnx 220X media to HDCam/HDCamSR successfully without
> > stalls. It seems like this should work I'm hoping it's just that I've got
> > the PCI=E io express HBA card in slot 2 set to only one lane that is the
> > problem. I'll probably just shot gun it and move the HBA to slot 4 which is
> > set for 4 lanes and see if there is improvement.
> >
> >
> > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Terence Curren" <tcurren@> wrote:
> > >
> > > <<http://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/User_Guide/en269631>>
> > >
> > > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, John Moore <bigfish@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > So I've been posting about the io express set up I'm setting up. It
> > does work but today we tried to output to HDCam. Machine control etc...
> > all worked but we could only output roughly 90 secs without a stall on
> > dropped frames. I found it wouldn't even go more than a second when the
> > output was set to 10 bit in the digital cut tool. Setting that to 8 bit
> > and we could output 90 secs ish chunks. I tried media from both an
> > internal drive and our fibre connected unity. I even added a sync
> > generator and feed the deck and the io express reference but still just
> > short chunks between stalls. I took the same project into my sndx mac and
> > it output without a hitch. I'm wondering if the lane configuration could
> > be an issue. right now slot 1 has 16 lanes with the 1900 radeon card.
> > Slot 2 has one lane with the HBA card for the io express. Slot 3 has a
> > celerity card for fibre at 4 lane. Slot 4 has 4 land with another video
> > card that can be used
> > > > for a full screen playback monitor but isn't connected now. Could the
> > 1 lane be choking the io express for output digital cut? I thought I read
> > somewhere that the io express only needs one lane but I may be
> > misremembering that. Are slots 2 thru 4 all compatible so I could choose
> > one of the other configurations and get 4 lanes to the slot 2 or should I
> > just move the io express HBA card to slot 4 and put the extra video card in
> > slot 2. The extra video card isn't feeding anything right now so a one
> > lane slot wouldn't really effect anything would it?
> > > >
> > > > John Moore
> > > >
> > > > Barking Trout Productions
> > > >
> > > > Studio City, CA
> > > >
> > > > bigfish@
> > > >
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