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Are those dual MOTU's internal cards, good god??



The MOTU units are not cards. They are 19" rack mounted units sitting in a rack that is interfaced with a PCIx card in the computer. They use a "firewire like" cable running from 1 of 4 connectors on the card to the back of the units. I say "firewire like" because they are not the same spec as standard firewire. The CPU/RAM combination is not driving anything in the MOTU, though I am going to pop another 2gb stick in there over the weekend. Now, I used to use an M-Audio interface that connected through USB. The data bus across the motherboard is higher throughput than the USB port so the PCI card will not likely cause any bottlenecks.

Harv, I did not consider that with every edit and every take I was using cache, and now that gives me one more thing to consider. I would like to address one thing you said though. You said that when I rebooted I made "changes" to my setup. I would restate that to say that I reverted the setup to where it was before it crashed, and if that is what you meant we are on the same page. If you meant that I changed something, as in "set up something differently before you crashed" that is not the case.

And I need to clarify my opinion about "something". I work in IT. We do not accept "something". We have to be able to find "THE thing".

Let's say that on Monday, you ate oatmeal and a banana with a glass of milk for breakfast, carrots and celery sticks as a morning snack, tomato soup and a grilled cheese sandwich for lunch, cheese and crackers for an afternoon snack, grilled chicken breast, roasted red potatoes and spinach salad with ranch dressing for dinner.

At 10pm you get violently ill with symptoms resembling food poisoning. You go to the doctor and he tells you that "something" made you sick. Well, DUH, doc, I know "something" made me sick. Is "something" a good enough answer or do you want to know "THE thing" that made you sick so you can avoid it?

Now, let's add to that scenario that you eat that exact menu every day and suddenly on THIS day you ate the same foods and became sick. I think you could then rule out the food itself and introduce the theory that another factor has been introduced, a form of bacteria, a flu bug..... but you can pretty much say it wasn't your diet since your diet has been fine forever.

That is what I am up against. Was it food that suddenly made me sick or an outside influence? My "food" went many days without incident. Suddenly, the same "food" caused a reaction. This is the logic of a nerd and how we troubleshoot. Look for commonalities and rule out anything that has always been the same.

When I first plugged in the second MOTU, that was changing "food" and when it bombed I expected it and corrected it. Then that "food" was fine for many days.

I just don't know. More RAM is about all I haven't tried yet.