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Hmmm.......major score!!! [message #76526] Wed, 29 November 2006 19:44 Go to next message
DJ is currently offline  DJ   UNITED STATES
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I ran across a 13 slot Magma chassis offered by a post house in NYC on the
FS section of the DUC at an *extremely* good price. I expected it to have
the 80 pin flat cable. It just got here. It's one of the newer ones with the
round cable!!! This is the one that is compatible with the Magma PCIe
adapter. I wasn't expecting this but it certainly adds some flexibility to
my system down the road as suddenly I've got a situation here that would
allow EDS or any other PCI card to be potentially compatible with newer PCIe
based mobo's. This could also be a biggie for the Pulsar cards since the
consensus of opinion is that .due to PCI bandwidth limitations, only 3 x
Pulsar cards can be used in a system.

Hmmmm........my 3 Pulsars will be loaded into this chassis tonight. I'm
hoping this will give me a bit more in the way of DSP use since the
unorthodox cable I've been using may be limiting my DSP availability. Later
down the road, I'll likely be getting into a newer Intel core duo system and
I'll snag one of the PCIe adapters and have a PCIe compatible Magma.

Cool.
Magma card configuration [message #76530 is a reply to message #76526] Wed, 29 November 2006 23:06 Go to previous message
DJ is currently offline  DJ   UNITED STATES
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Registered: July 2005
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Alrighty then. The mobo is an ASUS A8V-Dlx. I've got 4 x UAD-1 cards in 13
slot Magma #1 with the host card in mobo PCI #4 with the UAD-1 cards in
Magma PCI slots #1, 5, 8 and 12. All 4 x UAD-1 cards are sharing IRQ 19 and
no other device is sharing IRQ 19. the host card for 13 slot Magma #2 is in
mobo PCI #3 and the 3 x Pulsar cards are in Magma PCI slots #1, 5 and 11 and
they are all sharing IRQ 18 and not sharing with any other device. Also,
there are some more wacked out possibilities with this system since in this
2nd chassis, PCI slot #10 is on IRQ 17 and so is mobo PCI slot #2 and this
IRQ is only shared with the LAN card which can be disabled so, in theory,
could be used for another Pulsar in the Magma or a PCI Firewire
card...............sorta' thinking Duende here, I imagine that my PCI bus
would likely scream for mercy......but who knows???...........this
definitely needs to be explored at some point

;o)

"DJ" <nowayjose@dude.net> wrote in message news:456e5104$1@linux...
>I ran across a 13 slot Magma chassis offered by a post house in NYC on the
>FS section of the DUC at an *extremely* good price. I expected it to have
>the 80 pin flat cable. It just got here. It's one of the newer ones with
>the round cable!!! This is the one that is compatible with the Magma PCIe
>adapter. I wasn't expecting this but it certainly adds some flexibility to
>my system down the road as suddenly I've got a situation here that would
>allow EDS or any other PCI card to be potentially compatible with newer
>PCIe based mobo's. This could also be a biggie for the Pulsar cards since
>the consensus of opinion is that .due to PCI bandwidth limitations, only 3
>x Pulsar cards can be used in a system.
>
> Hmmmm........my 3 Pulsars will be loaded into this chassis tonight. I'm
> hoping this will give me a bit more in the way of DSP use since the
> unorthodox cable I've been using may be limiting my DSP availability.
> Later down the road, I'll likely be getting into a newer Intel core duo
> system and I'll snag one of the PCIe adapters and have a PCIe compatible
> Magma.
>
> Cool.
>
>
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