Saturday, February 3, 2018

[Avid-L2] Mac USB 3.0 or 3.1 PCIe Card?

 

I've tapped my local heros and there is a CalDigit Card and there is a Sonnet 4 port card.  The Cal Digit has 2 USB Type A connections, a USB type C connection and an Esata connection.  The Sonnet has 4 standard USB 3 Type style connections.  I've googled and USB 3.1 has double the speed plus enhanced power on the cable.  I've been running one of the Sonnet cards on a MacPro 2010 at work and it handles our Graid etc... USB 3 needs.

So given I have a mid 2012 MacPro 12 core 2.66Ghz and an Cyclone Microsystems Expansion chassis with 2 available 4 lane slots will that configuration even allow me to take advantage of the USB 3.1 speed boost?  The Expansion chassis houses two Titan X GPUs and a 1600 watt power supply.  The chassis is connect to the MacPro 16 lane slot. 

I think the Sonnet will handle my USB 3 connection needs for the current crop of drives I deal with but would that be a short sighted purchase.  I'm assuming the USB 3.1 will throttle back it's speed if plugged into a USB type a port but I'm just assuming.  I've read the future of USB 3.1 is more for mobile and laptop devices but what does this collective brain trust think?  TIA
 
John Moore Barking Trout Productions Studio City, CA bigfish@pacbell.net

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Re: [Avid-L2] Upgrading Avid or reinstalling leads to unstable start up?

 

Kernel Panics at startup are often hardware related.  RAM or graphics card would be the first things I would check.



On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 1:50 PM Ed Fuller edfuller@gmail.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 

Did you try the Apple Hardware Test (restart while holding the D key). Could be bad RAM or some other hardware issue causing the kernel panics. 


On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 10:42 John Moore bigfish@pacbell.net [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


Home system MacPro mid 2012 12 Core 2.66GHz OS 10.12.5 Avid 8.9.4.

I have always had somewhat unstable startups on this computer.  For the most part it's fine but occasionally it will kernel panic with the screen of text popping up and then it auto restarts.  Sometimes this happens multiple times.  I've just learned to live with it.  I'm sure there just some odd tidbit floating around but a clean install isn't in my plans.

When I recently upgraded the OS to Sierra I noticed that my startups were very stable.  Then I upgraded Avid from 8.5.3 to 8.6.4 and then the kernel panic startups began again.  Then after about a week it got real stable again.  When I have the issue some times I will hold option and choose the startup disk but still I might get the kernel panics.  After then after 8.6.4 seemed stable on startup I upgraded to 8.9.4 about two weeks ago and again the kernel panics kicked in.  Once again going through the option choose startup made no noticeable difference.  Then after about a week and a half it's stable startup again.

I'm curious if anyone has any idea what the computer is doing in this situation?  Is there some sort of learning curve.  I'm booting off a Pcie SSD drive but I've had similar experience on spinning drives.  I tried zapping the Pram but no change.  Any thoughts I'm just curious.
 
John Moore Barking Trout Productions Studio City, CA bigfish@pacbell.net


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Re: [Avid-L2] Upgrading Avid or reinstalling leads to unstable start up?

 

Did you try the Apple Hardware Test (restart while holding the D key). Could be bad RAM or some other hardware issue causing the kernel panics. 

On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 10:42 John Moore bigfish@pacbell.net [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


Home system MacPro mid 2012 12 Core 2.66GHz OS 10.12.5 Avid 8.9.4.

I have always had somewhat unstable startups on this computer.  For the most part it's fine but occasionally it will kernel panic with the screen of text popping up and then it auto restarts.  Sometimes this happens multiple times.  I've just learned to live with it.  I'm sure there just some odd tidbit floating around but a clean install isn't in my plans.

When I recently upgraded the OS to Sierra I noticed that my startups were very stable.  Then I upgraded Avid from 8.5.3 to 8.6.4 and then the kernel panic startups began again.  Then after about a week it got real stable again.  When I have the issue some times I will hold option and choose the startup disk but still I might get the kernel panics.  After then after 8.6.4 seemed stable on startup I upgraded to 8.9.4 about two weeks ago and again the kernel panics kicked in.  Once again going through the option choose startup made no noticeable difference.  Then after about a week and a half it's stable startup again.

I'm curious if anyone has any idea what the computer is doing in this situation?  Is there some sort of learning curve.  I'm booting off a Pcie SSD drive but I've had similar experience on spinning drives.  I tried zapping the Pram but no change.  Any thoughts I'm just curious.
 
John Moore Barking Trout Productions Studio City, CA bigfish@pacbell.net


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Posted by Video Geek Squad at 10:50 AM 0 comments

[Avid-L2] Upgrading Avid or reinstalling leads to unstable start up?

 

Home system MacPro mid 2012 12 Core 2.66GHz OS 10.12.5 Avid 8.9.4.

I have always had somewhat unstable startups on this computer.  For the most part it's fine but occasionally it will kernel panic with the screen of text popping up and then it auto restarts.  Sometimes this happens multiple times.  I've just learned to live with it.  I'm sure there just some odd tidbit floating around but a clean install isn't in my plans.

When I recently upgraded the OS to Sierra I noticed that my startups were very stable.  Then I upgraded Avid from 8.5.3 to 8.6.4 and then the kernel panic startups began again.  Then after about a week it got real stable again.  When I have the issue some times I will hold option and choose the startup disk but still I might get the kernel panics.  After then after 8.6.4 seemed stable on startup I upgraded to 8.9.4 about two weeks ago and again the kernel panics kicked in.  Once again going through the option choose startup made no noticeable difference.  Then after about a week and a half it's stable startup again.

I'm curious if anyone has any idea what the computer is doing in this situation?  Is there some sort of learning curve.  I'm booting off a Pcie SSD drive but I've had similar experience on spinning drives.  I tried zapping the Pram but no change.  Any thoughts I'm just curious.
 
John Moore Barking Trout Productions Studio City, CA bigfish@pacbell.net

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Friday, February 2, 2018

OT: Re: [Avid-L2] Crashes After Upgrade to MC 2018.1

 

Not much "Phrasing" these days.  Ever since App Manager replaced the dongle dumper something was lost.  And when did we start "Blasting" dongles?  When I was in the CMX maintenance class in 83 during the I squared section they called it "Blowing the PROM." to program the chips for the I squared to control a specific VTR. 

Oh well time to get back to the Tar Pit for the weekend.


---In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, <mactvman@...> wrote :

So we ARE doing "Phrasing"....


On Friday, February 2, 2018 3:49 PM, "bigfish@... [Avid-L2]" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


 
Mr. Dave,  At our ages I think a replacement dongle should be mandatory!!!  


---In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, <mactvman@...> wrote :

Update!  The real pro (The wonderful Ms M) got on the case, and it turns out the bit about High Sierra and drivers for dongles is bogus...

Probably just a dongle issue, I am getting a new one.

Once again, there is only ONE!  (I rue the day Marianna decides to retire).

Dave Hogan
Burabnk, CA




On Friday, February 2, 2018 1:35 PM, "Dave Hogan mactvman@... [Avid-L2]" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


 
I upgraded to High Sierra on my laptop last night, did as recommended, un-installed MC (was running 8.9.2) and upgraded from Sierra to High Sierra.  Installed 2018.1 and now my dongle won't work.

Per tech support (via e-mail):

"...We are currently receiving a lot of compatibility issues between Media Composer dongle licenses and Mac OS X High Sierra. What we can do for now would be to convert your dongle license to software activated license. At this time, we're still coordinating with Gemalto if they can release a Sentinel Driver that will support Mac OS X High Sierra.
Let me know if you want to proceed on converting your dongle license to software."
No way I wanna give up my dongle!
Gonna see if there is an alternative, thankfully this is my test system, and not affecting my systems I use daily.
Dave Hogan,
Burbank, CA


On Friday, February 2, 2018 1:19 PM, "David Dodson davaldod@... [Avid-L2]" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


 
From your lips to Mac's ears. Maybe it'll stabilize for me.


David Dodson
davaldod@...



On Feb 2, 2018, at 1:17 PM, ammfx ammfx@... [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


I'm on Yosemite with the same version and have only crashed twice in two weeks.
Alan Miller



Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy Note 8

-------- Original message --------
From: "David Dodson davaldod@... [Avid-L2]" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> 
Date: 2/2/18 2:28 PM (GMT-05:00) 
To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, john beck <jb30343@...> 
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Crashes After Upgrade to MC 2018.1 

Is it possible that MC 2018.1 no longer likes Yosemite? Is there any wisdom to updating my OS to High Sierra? Or maybe that'll just make things worse?



David Dodson
davaldod@...



On Feb 2, 2018, at 9:24 AM, john beck jb30343@... [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

My productivity dropped like a rock when we went from Windows 7 / MC 8.4 
to Windows 10/ MC 8.9. --J.B.

David Dodson davaldod@... [Avid-L2] wrote:
> Against all reason I upgraded to MC 2018.1 and now I can't do two things without it crashing. Feels like a total cream puff. On deadline and don't have time for this crap.
>
> Anyone having these issues? I'm on OS 10.10..5.
>
> Thanks,
>
> DD
>
>
> David Dodson
> davaldod@...
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>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
> Posted by: David Dodson <davaldod@...>
> ------------------------------------
>
> this is the Avid-L2
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo Groups Links
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>










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Posted by Video Geek Squad at 5:20 PM 0 comments

Re: [Avid-L2] Crashes After Upgrade to MC 2018.1

 

So we ARE doing "Phrasing"....


On Friday, February 2, 2018 3:49 PM, "bigfish@pacbell.net [Avid-L2]" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


 
Mr. Dave,  At our ages I think a replacement dongle should be mandatory!!!  


---In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, <mactvman@...> wrote :

Update!  The real pro (The wonderful Ms M) got on the case, and it turns out the bit about High Sierra and drivers for dongles is bogus...

Probably just a dongle issue, I am getting a new one.

Once again, there is only ONE!  (I rue the day Marianna decides to retire).

Dave Hogan
Burabnk, CA




On Friday, February 2, 2018 1:35 PM, "Dave Hogan mactvman@... [Avid-L2]" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


 
I upgraded to High Sierra on my laptop last night, did as recommended, un-installed MC (was running 8.9.2) and upgraded from Sierra to High Sierra.  Installed 2018.1 and now my dongle won't work.

Per tech support (via e-mail):

"...We are currently receiving a lot of compatibility issues between Media Composer dongle licenses and Mac OS X High Sierra. What we can do for now would be to convert your dongle license to software activated license. At this time, we're still coordinating with Gemalto if they can release a Sentinel Driver that will support Mac OS X High Sierra.
Let me know if you want to proceed on converting your dongle license to software."
No way I wanna give up my dongle!
Gonna see if there is an alternative, thankfully this is my test system, and not affecting my systems I use daily.
Dave Hogan,
Burbank, CA


On Friday, February 2, 2018 1:19 PM, "David Dodson davaldod@... [Avid-L2]" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


 
From your lips to Mac's ears. Maybe it'll stabilize for me.


David Dodson
davaldod@...



On Feb 2, 2018, at 1:17 PM, ammfx ammfx@... [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


I'm on Yosemite with the same version and have only crashed twice in two weeks.
Alan Miller



Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy Note 8

-------- Original message --------
From: "David Dodson davaldod@... [Avid-L2]" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> 
Date: 2/2/18 2:28 PM (GMT-05:00) 
To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, john beck <jb30343@...> 
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Crashes After Upgrade to MC 2018.1 

Is it possible that MC 2018.1 no longer likes Yosemite? Is there any wisdom to updating my OS to High Sierra? Or maybe that'll just make things worse?



David Dodson
davaldod@...



On Feb 2, 2018, at 9:24 AM, john beck jb30343@... [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

My productivity dropped like a rock when we went from Windows 7 / MC 8.4 
to Windows 10/ MC 8.9. --J.B.

David Dodson davaldod@... [Avid-L2] wrote:
> Against all reason I upgraded to MC 2018.1 and now I can't do two things without it crashing. Feels like a total cream puff. On deadline and don't have time for this crap.
>
> Anyone having these issues? I'm on OS 10.10..5.
>
> Thanks,
>
> DD
>
>
> David Dodson
> davaldod@...
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
> Posted by: David Dodson <davaldod@...>
> ------------------------------------
>
> this is the Avid-L2
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo Groups Links
>
>
>
>
>










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