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.
gh
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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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