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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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