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Old 12-22-2009, 02:18 PM
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Default P7R4 Magma Chassis still supported in 8.0.3?

Digi mentions the Expansion HD chassis will not be supported, but not sure if the Magma 7 slot P7R4 chassis will still be supported. Didnt see any literature on it. Working totally fine with 8.0.1
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Old 12-23-2009, 01:05 AM
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Default Re: P7R4 Magma Chassis still supported in 8.0.3?

Yes its still supported, Expansion|HD is a digidesign product name, (nothing to do with magma chassis) of an expansion chassis over a single gigiabit ethernet connection and its obviously a bit too hard work to support.
Look at the new expanded systems guide that on the 8.0.3 download page for more info.
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Old 12-23-2009, 12:18 PM
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Default Re: P7R4 Magma Chassis still supported in 8.0.3?

Thanks much. Ok, I just noticed the little post DIGI put there about discontinued support and wanted to make sure I was good. I see you have the same chassis I do. Ok, cool.
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Old 12-23-2009, 02:27 PM
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Yeah the model we have is a good fast chassis so should be supported all the time PCI-X HD cards are.
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Old 12-23-2009, 04:21 PM
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Default Re: P7R4 Magma Chassis still supported in 8.0.3?

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Yeah the model we have is a good fast chassis so should be supported all the time PCI-X HD cards are.
I use a Magma P7r464. It's working very well. Really I have an HD 4 in it and can't tell it's even in a chassis. No performance loss at all.
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Old 12-24-2009, 06:59 AM
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Default Re: P7R4 Magma Chassis still supported in 8.0.3?

Yup Me too,
ten times better than the Expansion|HD i had before it,
Plus i only have one of the 2 cables hooked up (i got mine second hand and it only came with one)
So i wonder how much better it would be with both cables connected.
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Old 12-24-2009, 12:42 PM
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Default Re: P7R4 Magma Chassis still supported in 8.0.3?

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Yup Me too,
ten times better than the Expansion|HD i had before it,
Plus i only have one of the 2 cables hooked up (i got mine second hand and it only came with one)
So i wonder how much better it would be with both cables connected.
FYI the one I bought was second hand as well. It came with one cable too. The cable looked like a shd 68 pin scsi cable. I bought a 3 foot scsi cable from eBay for 16 dollars. It works great. Magma is selling their cables for 109$.
I think the chassis is working with a little better pci load. The % dropped in the system usage window by 10%.
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Old 12-24-2009, 12:56 PM
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Default Re: P7R4 Magma Chassis still supported in 8.0.3?

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FYI the one I bought was second hand as well. It came with one cable too. The cable looked like a shd 68 pin scsi cable. I bought a 3 foot scsi cable from eBay for 16 dollars. It works great. Magma is selling their cables for 109$.
I think the chassis is working with a little better pci load. The % dropped in the system usage window by 10%.
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Really?
Thats strange because i bought 2 different SCSI cables from ebay, one 0.5m and one 2m length and neither of them worked for me,
I dont suppose you have a link to the one you got do you?

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TC Powercore PCI MK2 x2 & Firewire

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Old 12-24-2009, 02:30 PM
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Default Re: P7R4 Magma Chassis still supported in 8.0.3?

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Really?
Thats strange because i bought 2 different SCSI cables from ebay, one 0.5m and one 2m length and neither of them worked for me,
I dont suppose you have a link to the one you got do you?

Thanks
Sure I do. I'll get it right to you.
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Old 12-24-2009, 03:25 PM
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Default Re: P7R4 Magma Chassis still supported in 8.0.3?

Here's the link to the exact cable needed for the P7R464. Best

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...=STRK:MEWNX:IT
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