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- From: ASanta-Pinter@ezin.net (Alex Santa-Pinter)
- Organization: Alex & Co.
- Date: Tue, 09 Apr 96 04:44:31 GMT
- Subject: Re: framestore/cg troubles on toaster
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- Greg Kimnach writes:
-
- > 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
-
- Out of curiosity, what do you use the SoundSwitch if you're using a Flyer for
- Video/Audio input?
-
- > 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.
-
- Are these connected to the Warp Engine SCSI bus externally?
-
- > 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.
-
- This is normally caused by having the wrong Max Transfer Rate set for your IDE hard
- drives on a A4000. Try changing it to : 0x1fe00 using HDToolbox.
-
- > 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:-(
-
- If the mentioned change to the transfer rate doesn't do it, maybe a re-install of
- the Flyer software (including re-formatting drives) might help. Heck, I recommend
- it as a matter of course every so often just to completely get rid of old software
- junk, unused files and simple to "clean things up". I know, its radical, but after
- seeing some client's rats' nests in their hard drives, it is really simpler to do
- than try to organize their systems. Oops! I strayed from the subject...
-
- >
- > 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.
- >
-
- Going to SCSI hard drives normally gets rid of the problem. However, you can still
- use the IDE you've got or install another by using the above mentioned Max Transfer
- Rate. The Warp Engine SCSI bus normally has no problems at all regarding this, you
- may however see little annoying things like having problems with devices at the end
- of your SCSI bus, removable devices not showing correctly sometimes or things to
- this effect. These are "normally" caused only by the wiring, not the controller (at
- least as far as we can tell).
-
- Good luck.
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- Thanks, Ciao!
-
- Alex
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