MP 7,1 Mac Pro 2019 NVME RAID drives failing to mount

[mattspace]

Aferburner is even more limted than that: only ProRes codec & somthing not all that common in cameras. A good Nvidia would have nailed it, but oh …. Useless except for a specialised & questionable workflow. Yet another dubious brain fart & misrepresentation from Apple.

Yeah absolutely, I should have emphasised - so it relies on you transcoding first into prores.

They certainly marketed it as a reconfigurable piece of hardware, as if it would be able to be reconfigured in realtime on a task by task basis.

 

[Regulus67]

They certainly marketed it as a reconfigurable piece of hardware, as if it would be able to be reconfigured in realtime on a task by task basis.

I have been searching for a way to reconfigure the afterburner card, or if anyone already have found other ways to use it. As it has a FPGA chip. But so far I have not discovered anything.

AMD has a similar card

AMD's latest FPGA promises lower latency stock trading bots

Letting more advanced ML loose on the stock market? What could possibly go wrong?

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[jwestpro]

Honestly, I only have mine in the machine because removing it is too much of a palaver. The Afterburner (AFAIK) has one function - decoding video for playback. If you're not editing video, it's largely a paperweight. It doesn't help with display functions or *encoding* etc, merely means you can have more streams of higher quality realtime video in your editor.

If you have it in a PCI x16 slot, it will use 16 lanes, and can process (IIRC) 8 streams of video. If you put it in an 8x slot, all that happens is the number of streams is halved. IF I keep mine in my machine, I'll probably end up moving it to an 8x slot, so my NVME card can go to the x16 and be fully populated at its full capacity.

The W5700 can drive all your displays on its own. The real question it what you want in your second MPX bay, with all that unswitched PCI bandwidth.

Kind of what I figured and as soon as I read the next reply, I remembered the ProRes aspect. I only have the 5500 because they were willing to just include it when I asked to buy/upgrade to the 5700x which only has 1 hdmi vs 2 on the 5500. I see the 2023 mac pro comes with 2 hdmi.

I think with the 5700 and 5500 that still leaves 2 more 16x lanes. The owc 4m2 and 1m2 nvme adapters I have in the 2019 don't make use of a 16x anyway.

 

[Hasbro1]

A waste of time, the only answer those condescending nitwits have is ‘reinstall your operating system’.

I have to say this is exactly my experience with not just the Genius bar but almost every high ranking contributor that comments on the, (Un???), Official Apple forum.

He went Apple Store to get great customer service and white glove service from the Apple Store in Natick , followed by dealing with executive relations who promise they would roll out white glove service.
"the lie detector, determined, that was a lie".

Pure garbage. When this machine dies, so does my reliance on Mac. There is not a program on earth that can't run on just about any operating system. I've been so stuck in logic and Final Cut Pro, and they're not even the industry standard anymore and I pay for Adobe every month. Hopefully a few years from now I'll upgrade it one more time with a juicy processor, but I'm sure unless I keep my operating system down here they'll find a way not to support it. So my lesson from all this is turned off all automatic software updates forever from Apple. I think I got better customer service the week that #CircuitCity went out of business.

 

[profdraper]

He went Apple Store to get great customer service and white glove service from the Apple Store in Natick , followed by dealing with executive relations who promise they would roll out white glove service.
"the lie detector, determined, that was a lie".

Pure garbage. When this machine dies, so does my reliance on Mac. There is not a program on earth that can't run on just about any operating system. I've been so stuck in logic and Final Cut Pro, and they're not even the industry standard anymore and I pay for Adobe every month. Hopefully a few years from now I'll upgrade it one more time with a juicy processor, but I'm sure unless I keep my operating system down here they'll find a way not to support it. So my lesson from all this is turned off all automatic software updates forever from Apple. I think I got better customer service the week that #CircuitCity went out of business.

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Try Davinci Resolve, you won't go back. Try the free one, if you like & need more, go Davinci Resolve Studio. So much better than Apple-centric FCP & infinitely better than Adobe's subscription service. Pay once for Resolve Studio. Re. Logic, I'd say give Cubase Pro a try.

 

[profdraper]

Anyone know if Sequoia 15.3 has fixed this yet? I'm guessing not ...

EDIT: and after a half day of time-wasting with Apple bs once again, the answer is .... drummmm rollllll... YES.

Unplugged Thunderbay, installed, re-booted, connected Thunderbay, it mounted, restarted & zapped PRAM.

Now does what it should/ 2024, the future. Mindbogging, from the trillions company that doe sit all in revers: shareholders first, staff second, customers last.

 

[smckenzie]

Try Davinci Resolve, you won't go back. Try the free one, if you like & need more, go Davinci Resolve Studio. So much better than Apple-centric FCP & infinitely better than Adobe's subscription service. Pay once for Resolve Studio. Re. Logic, I'd say give Cubase Pro a try.

I just got Cubase. Right now they are offering a cross grade from logic to cubase for 40% off. I got the pro version for $270 instead of $580. Just provide them with proof of ownership of logic. Offer ends early feb I think. It’s a NAMM promotion.

 

[Hasbro1]

I just got Cubase. Right now they are offering a cross grade from logic to cubase for 40% off. I got the pro version for $270 instead of $580. Just provide them with proof of ownership of logic. Offer ends early feb I think. It’s a NAMM promotion.

Try Davinci Resolve, you won't go back. Try the free one, if you like & need more, go Davinci Resolve Studio. So much better than Apple-centric FCP & infinitely better than Adobe's subscription service. Pay once for Resolve Studio. Re. Logic, I'd say give Cubase Pro a try.

I will check it out. I have Studio One as well. Ive never tried cubase.

 

[profdraper]

I will check it out. I have Studio One as well. Ive never tried cubase.

S1 is a nice piece of kit as well (from ex-Steinberg core dev plus new PhD wiz /audio engine). Relatively new code, ground up, nice. GUI is a little open source for me, but YMMV.

Charlie Steinberg is one of the original and literally invented the DAW we see to day with Cubase v1. Still a greta piece of kit. Big diff with logic is all the VIs included, but still hate the thing & what Apple did to it since Gerhard Lengling sold out.

Cubase will cost you more if you want all their VIs, but I've just been using 3rd party for all that, Native Instruments for example. A lot more range in 3rd party as well; Logic seems to have doof-doof pop mentality. Big brother Nuendo is astonishing and takes on all of post, walks all over Pro Tools etc.

 

[smckenzie]

I was on Logic when it was Emagic back in the day. On the Atari before that. Logic just seems a bit lame, looks like a toy. Maybe I’m fickle. I finally got a bunch of the Native Instruments stuff so I should be set. Cubase seems to run well on my 7,1 from the little I’ve played with it.

 

[aventham]

Anyone know if Sequoia 15.3 has fixed this yet? I'm guessing not ...

EDIT: and after a half day of time-wasting with Apple bs once again, the answer is .... drummmm rollllll... YES.

Unplugged Thunderbay, installed, re-booted, connected Thunderbay, it mounted, restarted & zapped PRAM.

Now does what it should/ 2024, the future. Mindbogging, from the trillions company that doe sit all in revers: shareholders first, staff second, customers last.

Excellent! Now we just need someone braver than me to confirm whether it reliably mounts PCIE drives 🤞