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Workaround for Multiple ADAT Card Bug under WinXP
IMPORTANT NOTE JULY 31 2008: Mike Audet is debugging the ADAT dll as we speak - check the PARIS NG for updates and a beta dll to try! It will be linked here ASAP. With any luck, *all* of these issues may be a thing of the past.
So - what was this bug all about, and why do Mike's drivers fix it? Mike discovered that the faster computers became, the more it sped up the execution of the PARIS software code running on your computer - but of course the PARIS hardware wasn't speeding up to match. After a certain point, the PARIS hardware simply couldn't keep up. The software would essentially say "any ADAT cards there?" but run off to other tasks before the cards could respond. Mike's judicious tweaking of the "time windows" fixed it.
>I seem to remember that some of you using XP had no problems with ADAT
> transfers, while others were having difficulties. I'm still on ME with
> Paris. One of these days I'm going to transport over to XP. What is the
> state of ADAT with XP in Paris.
>
> Rich
>
No change. I think Brian T, Dimitrios and Mic Cross were able to get more
than 1 ADAT module per MEC to work. I never was able to do this. If you need
lightpipe connectivity, be sure to buy a new HD to use with XP so your old
system drive can save you if XP hoses your routing matrix.
Deej
Just because it's the way I preferred my physical layout from day one, my ADAT cards have always been in the highest numbered slots. In every MEC, my card sequence, from low to high slot number is:
Lowest = Any/all Analog 8-In cards
Middle = Any/all Analog 8-Out cards
Highest = Any/all ADAT cards
Lowest slots are closest to power supply of the MEC.
Maybe that's it, since none of my MECS has ever deviated from this scheme and I've never had the first problem with ADAT cards under XP. There are other variables, but this one seems a very likely candidate.
BT
Sandy Tipping wrote:
As was suggested, ADAT cards under WinXP seem (in my case) to prefer to be
at the end of the MEC - the higher numbered slots.
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