Is it safe to upgrade to Pulsar V3.01?

Acid Man · Post by **Acid Man** » Tue Nov 06, 2001 7:58 am

Hi,

Any of you have experience with upgrading to 3.01? Currently I run 3.0 and this all works fine.

Is the V3.01 stable in combination with AMD and Win98SE?

Cheers,

Acid

JoeKa · Post by **JoeKa** » Tue Nov 06, 2001 8:18 am

I don´t think that there´ll be any problems related to the AMD CPU.

V3 had so many bugs on my system, I couldn´t work for about three weeks! But since the upgrade to 3.01 it´s working again, yahoo!
Well, not all of my problems have disappeared, but most of them, so I can continue my work.
Yet the only severe problem left on my system is an metallic crackling, stuttering ASIO24 source... but I guess I can fix this soon.

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Sam Mo · Post by **Sam Mo** » Tue Nov 06, 2001 8:26 am

I've done the 3.01 upgrade and it works fine on my system.
Well, 3.0 was also working fine

Acid Man · Post by **Acid Man** » Tue Nov 06, 2001 11:39 am

Ok then!

I will install 3.01 right away!

Thanks!

Acid

JoeKa · Post by **JoeKa** » Tue Nov 06, 2001 8:28 pm

It was what I guessed: I record to my SCSI drive now instead of the IDE, and the problem´s gone! Stupid IDE-system! In my opinion SCSI should have become the usual standard long ago...
Well, I´m just about to rebuild my system as SCSI-only anyway so I´ll never see such problems again. But I will keep at least one of the IDE drives for backing up and maybe some games, too.

Post by **garyb** » Tue Nov 06, 2001 11:51 pm

ide works fine for me as does scsi.dma checked?(i know you've been around and are sharp,but it should work fine.)

Acid Man · Post by **Acid Man** » Wed Nov 07, 2001 5:38 am

I recently solved a problem with my scsi hard drive. The D**n thing started up as a primary partition and settled on my E: drive (where all my progs are installed).

I downloaded PartitionMagic and changed the hard drive to logical and now everything works perfectly. Never have any problems with the scsi card though.

Finally I can do some serious audio recording (36GIG drive with 10.000 rpm). I already worked with this type of hard drive b4. You should check out: http://www.lacie.com.

Acid

JoeKa · Post by **JoeKa** » Wed Nov 07, 2001 7:47 am

Hm. Gary, what makes me wonder is the fact that before the installation of V3, the IDE drives worked commonly fine, up to 16 stereotracks never were a problem. And I have not changed anything since 2.04a...
The DMA-mode should be on, right?
It´s just a matter of recording, PB still does fine.
I´m going to find that problem with the IDE d´s... I think I already have a clue.

Post by **garyb** » Wed Nov 07, 2001 9:44 am

let us know...

JoeKa · Post by **JoeKa** » Wed Nov 07, 2001 5:12 pm

Didn´t work out...grr.
Seems to be the V3 ASIO drivers eating up my CPU resources to the very end, so handling the data on the IDE drive is just that bit too much for it. SCSI doesn´t need CPU, so it works.

freddan · Post by **freddan** » Thu Nov 08, 2001 1:46 am

Has Creamware stopped sending out news updates via e-mail? I didn't get one for 3.0 or 3.01. Do you guys get mail from them?

/freddan

samplaire · Post by **samplaire** » Thu Nov 08, 2001 4:04 am

On 2001-11-06 20:28, JoeKa wrote:
Stupid IDE-system! In my opinion SCSI should have become the usual standard long ago...

And it is for ages (macs have had scsi interface installed as standard for a long time and some of them had originally installed inner scsi drives).

Well, I´m just about to rebuild my system as SCSI-only anyway so I´ll never see such problems again.

Unfortunatelly you will see even worse problems - remember to have best cables available (it's not any cliche!), try to avoid disconnecting your scuzzy drives or do it not too often - scsi was my nightmare for a long time (ask anybody using scsi about it). FireWire seems to be THE solution (I haven't heard about any bugs, yet, but who knows?).

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Sam Plaire

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samplaire · Post by **samplaire** » Thu Nov 08, 2001 4:08 am

On 2001-11-08 01:46, freddan wrote:
Has Creamware stopped sending out news updates via e-mail? I didn't get one for 3.0 or 3.01. Do you guys get mail from them?

I'm a LUna + Pulsar user and got only news about the Luna 3.01 and no news about Pulsar updates, too

Air_PoLLo · Post by **Air_PoLLo** » Thu Nov 08, 2001 9:44 pm

FireWire I think is 55Mbit/s wich should give 6.8 Mb/s.... I could be wrong.

Micha · Post by **Micha** » Fri Nov 09, 2001 1:48 am

From the FireWire FAQ at http://www.1394ta.org:
Does the 1394 bus compete with USB or Fiber Channel?
Almost everyone who works with these various buses considers 1394 a complement to USB, since it offers much higher speeds (up to 1.2 Gigabit

) and is designed for isochronous and asynch video/audio/data transfer. While USB is ideal for computer peripherals at speeds in the neighborhood of 12 Mbps, 1394 has a different mission. Many new PCs now include ports for both of these standards. Fiber Channel applications have been focused on disk drive and high-end storage, particularly data server applications.

Happy pulsaring
Micha

Air_PoLLo · Post by **Air_PoLLo** » Fri Nov 09, 2001 10:49 am

HEhe I said I could be wrong