posted 10 April 2012 13:47            

Mac fw800 -> fw800 pacarana fw800 -> fw400 t.c.electronic.

When I leave a sound running for like a day or so I'll get a Firewire bus error reported by Kyma X - this happened to me twice now.

On the first occasion somehow the studiokonnekt's settings were messed up and I had to re-install it's software and reset to factory defaults to fix it.

On the 2nd occasion I just had to power cycle some stuff.

I'd like to have things a bit more reliable ... is there anything I could look into?

posted 10 April 2012 19:36            

One thing you might want to do, now, is set Stack Traces to Allowed in the Preferences.

Also, see this thread the previous thread in the forum: Beware the flat orange FW cables of Doom!

posted 10 April 2012 21:46            

Is your computer ever going to sleep? This could confuse the FireWire bus.
Are there any other FireWire devices on the bus?

posted 11 April 2012 13:21            

Stack tracing, saw that somewhere - ok - turned on.

I think both cables used are of good quality - one supplied by Symbolic sound, and the other may be a tad thinner, but similar quality I'd say (it may be a tad long with 3 m / 10 ft ?).

And re. sleep/FW connections - Kyma seems to prevent the Mac's sleep, and there are no other FW devices involved.

The pacarana is connected over Ethernet though, in case such might matter.

Edit: it did not crash today.

posted 17 April 2012 15:39            

An you gave. Up and got one

I have the exact same setup you mentioned but have never ran it for that length of time.

Do you have anything else attached to the same F800 bus on the mac?

Cheers

posted 21 April 2012 03:23            

Nice to find you here... maybe we could do one of those weekend european KYMA meetings we commented during our "holiday-synth-event" in Mallorca last January? Köln, perhaps?

I had a very strange FW connection problem a few months ago. I even bought a new FW cable.

It has no reasonable explanation but disconnecting a USB external hard drive made all the problems dissapear. It could even be related to an electrical problem. I suspect this because whenever I turn off the lights in my home-studio, the Pacarana still looses connection. I made an electrician check the installation but he found nothing.

posted 25 April 2012 16:31            

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In case you find no logical explanation, check out also for possible power issues.

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Well ... actually stuff like that would be more logical to me ;-)

I did actually think about bad power though, but as usually my ethernet switch will stop working on a slight powerdip and that one was still alive ...

posted 04 September 2012 19:58            

The system has been up now for like two or three weeks continuously and I did some patching on it again (had been running boring debugging stuff for weeks .. from crash to crash ... almost was at the point to try flying lessons for the pacarana) .. anyway, all failures will be my own fuckups again :-)