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- From: Kimnach@popserve.lerc.nasa.gov (Greg L. Kimnach)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,rec.video.desktop,comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
- Subject: framestore/cg troubles on toaster
- Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 14:58:28
- Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
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- this weekend some troubled cropped up with my a4000/vt4000/flyer system. the trouble more
- than likely has something to do with the a4000/warp engine.
-
- first off, my amiga system configuration is:
- a4000 with buster rev11
- warp engine 3040 with two 32meg double sided simms
- maxtor 1.6gig ide drive (system--including toaster/flyer s/w)
- vt4000/flyer 4.1
- soundswitch
- personal componenet adapter
- all of this is in a highflyer expansion chassis
-
- and i have a toshiba 3401b (2x scsi cd-rom) in an external enclosure. the flyer drives, tape
- backup, video distribution amp, personal v-scope, and kitchen sync are housed in a "flight
- recorder" mid-tower case.
-
- as for the problem which suddenly began on saturday: i cannot create a framestore (cg page or
- captured image from one of the toaster inputs).
-
- the cg renders and is saved, but trying to load it in a project (or just double-clicking on its icon on
- the ide system drive, where it is located) results in roughly the top 20% of the fs loading. a
- second attempt causes the system to give me a guru error (didn't right down the number for the
- sw and task numbers). furthermore, i cannot load a fs cg page, which i created, into toasterpaint.
- the system locks up. same with a framestore that i capture from video.
-
- interestingly enough, none of this occurs with the flyer s/w supplied framestores. i can load those
- into tp or into the dv_ buffers. however, as i was trying to figure out what was happening, i
- loaded two of the flyer framestores (the vt and vt4000 logos) consecutively into a project,
- assigned them a duration of 15 seconds, and hit play. the following error popped up:
-
- Problem discovered:
- Possible unknown sequencing error
-
- Possible Solutions:
- Check for SCSI cable/termination problems
- Try voidall to alleviate possible head problems
- Can also be caused by corrupt clip.
-
- now, keep in mind that these frames stores are on the ide system drive (not scsi) and that the
- flyer hard drives have been "freshly" formatted. so i digitized a video sequence to one of the
- video drives, and placed it between the two aforementioned croutons in the project.
-
- fs [15sec] ==> video clip [15sec] ==> fs [15sec]
-
- this now plays! remove the video clip, and i get the error again.
-
- there is something amiss with either my flyer software, my a4000, or my toaster/flyer hardware:-(
-
- any ideas?
-
- thanks,
- greg
-
- p.s. i have no trouble with key, scroll, and crawl pages. it seems to be limited to my dv buffers
- (framestores).
-
- p.p.s. i am going to replace the ide system drive with a scsi drive on the
- w.e.3040.
-
-
- regards,
- greg
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