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Mon, 02 April 2007 02:37

Dimitrios

Messages: 1056
Registered: August 2005

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Hi,
Although I had a magma and sold it wanna get one back again...
Now is there any cable for magma sold cheap from a third party source ?
Secondly if I buy barebone pci board and the interface cards will this (13slot)
board fit on ANY normal pc case ATX ?
Thanks
Dimitrios

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Re: Some Magma related questions... [message #82506 is a reply to message #82493]

Mon, 02 April 2007 10:01

Deej [4]

Messages: 1292
Registered: January 2007

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Dimitrios,

"Dimitrios" <musurgioNOSPAM@otenet>@.gr> wrote in message
news:4610ceda$1@linux...
>
> Hi,
> Although I had a magma and sold it wanna get one back again...
> Now is there any cable for magma sold cheap from a third party source ?

I once had a contact for the 80 pin flat ribbon cables. I cannot find it
now. The newer cables appear to be some kind of SCSI protocall.

> Secondly if I buy barebone pci board and the interface cards will this
> (13slot)
> board fit on ANY normal pc case ATX ?

Not without some major surgery to the back of the case. The 13 slots on the
backplane will take up the area where the I/O connectors are located on a
normal mobo and the spacing between the slots may not line up exactly with
the precut slots in case backplate.

Deej

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Re: Some Magma related questions... [message #82520 is a reply to message #82506]

Mon, 02 April 2007 10:54

EK Sound

Messages: 939
Registered: June 2005

Senior Member

Also, if you intend to upgrade a PCI chassis and use it with the
PEHIFX1 PCIe host card, make sure it is not a model that uses the DEC
bridge chipset... you will have to replace the backplane and cable as
well... for $1100.00!!!

David.

DJ wrote:
> Dimitrios,
>
> "Dimitrios" <musurgioNOSPAM@otenet>@.gr> wrote in message
> news:4610ceda$1@linux...
>
>>Hi,
>>Although I had a magma and sold it wanna get one back again...
>>Now is there any cable for magma sold cheap from a third party source ?
>
>
> I once had a contact for the 80 pin flat ribbon cables. I cannot find it
> now. The newer cables appear to be some kind of SCSI protocall.
>
>
>>Secondly if I buy barebone pci board and the interface cards will this
>>(13slot)
>>board fit on ANY normal pc case ATX ?
>
>
> Not without some major surgery to the back of the case. The 13 slots on the
> backplane will take up the area where the I/O connectors are located on a
> normal mobo and the spacing between the slots may not line up exactly with
> the precut slots in case backplate.
>
> Deej
>
>

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Re: Some Magma related questions... [message #82524 is a reply to message #82520]

Mon, 02 April 2007 11:33

Dimitrios

Messages: 1056
Registered: August 2005

Senior Member

Hehe thanks...
No PCIe here at all...
Just simple PCI like your "vintage" Paris-magma setups.
I once had this but could not make Paris cards sit inside Magma and have
an undistorted sound.
I now may guess that there could be a PIO/UDMA conflict that I discovered
recently !!
I was working with pio mode !
Sometimes pc sees the hardrives as pio so it have to be reconfigured...
So magma would be my next new try again...
I want to have at least 6 eds cards...
Regards,
Dimitrios

EK Sound <askme@nospam.com> wrote:
>Also, if you intend to upgrade a PCI chassis and use it with the
>PEHIFX1 PCIe host card, make sure it is not a model that uses the DEC
>bridge chipset... you will have to replace the backplane and cable as
>well... for $1100.00!!!
>
>David.
>
>DJ wrote:
>> Dimitrios,
>>
>> "Dimitrios" <musurgioNOSPAM@otenet>@.gr> wrote in message
>> news:4610ceda$1@linux...
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>Although I had a magma and sold it wanna get one back again...
>>>Now is there any cable for magma sold cheap from a third party source
?
>>
>>
>> I once had a contact for the 80 pin flat ribbon cables. I cannot find
it
>> now. The newer cables appear to be some kind of SCSI protocall.
>>
>>
>>>Secondly if I buy barebone pci board and the interface cards will this

>>>(13slot)
>>>board fit on ANY normal pc case ATX ?
>>
>>
>> Not without some major surgery to the back of the case. The 13 slots on
the
>> backplane will take up the area where the I/O connectors are located on
a
>> normal mobo and the spacing between the slots may not line up exactly
with
>> the precut slots in case backplate.
>>
>> Deej
>>
>>

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Re: Some Magma related questions... [message #82527 is a reply to message #82524]

Mon, 02 April 2007 12:26

EK Sound

Messages: 939
Registered: June 2005

Senior Member

We have 5 x EDS in a Magma PC113R chassis and have never had any IRQ
or distortion problems.

David.

Dimitrios wrote:
> Hehe thanks...
> No PCIe here at all...
> Just simple PCI like your "vintage" Paris-magma setups.
> I once had this but could not make Paris cards sit inside Magma and have
> an undistorted sound.
> I now may guess that there could be a PIO/UDMA conflict that I discovered
> recently !!
> I was working with pio mode !
> Sometimes pc sees the hardrives as pio so it have to be reconfigured...
> So magma would be my next new try again...
> I want to have at least 6 eds cards...
> Regards,
> Dimitrios
>
> EK Sound <askme@nospam.com> wrote:
>
>>Also, if you intend to upgrade a PCI chassis and use it with the
>>PEHIFX1 PCIe host card, make sure it is not a model that uses the DEC
>>bridge chipset... you will have to replace the backplane and cable as
>>well... for $1100.00!!!
>>
>>David.
>>
>>DJ wrote:
>>
>>>Dimitrios,
>>>
>>>"Dimitrios" <musurgioNOSPAM@otenet>@.gr> wrote in message
>>>news:4610ceda$1@linux...
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>>Although I had a magma and sold it wanna get one back again...
>>>>Now is there any cable for magma sold cheap from a third party source
>
> ?
>
>>>
>>>I once had a contact for the 80 pin flat ribbon cables. I cannot find
>
> it
>
>>>now. The newer cables appear to be some kind of SCSI protocall.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Secondly if I buy barebone pci board and the interface cards will this
>
>
>>>>(13slot)
>>>>board fit on ANY normal pc case ATX ?
>>>
>>>
>>>Not without some major surgery to the back of the case. The 13 slots on
>
> the
>
>>>backplane will take up the area where the I/O connectors are located on
>
> a
>
>>>normal mobo and the spacing between the slots may not line up exactly
>
> with
>
>>>the precut slots in case backplate.
>>>
>>>Deej
>>>
>>>
>
>

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