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Originally Posted by Zeppelin  Sorry guys, I was really keen to make this work, but since it looks like I am getting a job in a big studio that's about to open, I decided to hold off the purchase of a hd system for my own studio.
I am sure this would have worked, but probably would have needed to cut off a small piece of the G5's chassis(not a big deal though). |
I tried this thing with a 2008 mac pro and 2 pt hd cards. They do actually fit, the chassis can be closed, but Zeppelin was right. You can't plug in the TDM-cable unless you cut a piece out of the back of the chassis.
I took the second power supply of the mighty drive to power the adapters. So that wasn't a problem too.
The problem that remained is that
it simply doesn't work. The only thing I can find in mac-os is the pci-bridge but never the pt hd-cards. Protools can't find the hardware either.
So I tried the 4 pci to pcie - expansion thing. I used an old Tower chassis and a 500W psu.
When I tried it the first time it actually worked, but then everything got worse. If the expansion box was attached and powered up, the mac pro didn't boot. With the cable unplugged OR the expansion box unpowered, the mac pro did boot.
I got rid of the problem by plugging a second electric consumer inside the xp box, in this case an old hdd.
Don't ask me why, I don't understand it, but with the hdd attached to the xp-box-psu, everything works (for over a week now).
the mac pro does boot AND I can find all pt hd-cards in mac os AND protools does launch and work!