Two Cards, Sharing an A16 Ultra via Z-Link

le_tigre · Post by **le_tigre** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 9:27 am

Hi,

Can two old home cards, each with a single Z-link port, share one A16 Ultra? It looks like they can, but I'd like to be sure. Are there any gotchas?

Cheers.

kylie · Post by **kylie** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 10:35 am

although I didn't try that I'm conviced they can, especially when plugged into the same machine. I could even imagine that it is possible to use it as a kind of split luna box and use 8 channels from one machine independently from the other 8 channels. I had option 1 in mind before, but I didn't try yet. when my unit is back from service I surely check that, since I can imagine situations where I could find that useful, too.

-greetings, markus-

JL · Post by JL » Tue Jun 26, 2007 12:21 pm

Yes it works perfectly in one machine.

kylie · Post by **kylie** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:38 pm

since I looked up something else in the manual I found a passage that clears things up:

the unit will mute if not both z-link sources are phase coherent (something that won't occur if the cards sharing the A16U are connected via stdm and thus running in the same machine.)
my conclusion is: everything else may or may not work.

-greetings, markus-