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Hi all !

I just want to know, what's the maximum of connecting creamware cards.
My current setup now is:
1 x Pulsar XTC + 2 x Luna II connected together on one STDM cable, but Pulsar XTC have 2 STDM connector, can I install another Pulsar XTC on second connector ?

thanks !

i love those cards

The manual says 3 CW cards is a maximum for a machine. If you search this forum, you'll know it is possible in some way, and you have to contact CW...

Hey at0mic

I can't find the thread you're talking about, I've spent a 15 minutes searching, can you remember any keywords or have a link?

It is realy one of those things, where a look in the manual gives the nesesary informations.

In the manual it says all cards must be connected to all other cards, so how can you connect 4 cards with a 3 connector cable?

Can you create a 4 connector cable?

Can you simply not connect all the cards to all the other cards?

Has anyone done this successfully?

What's this about contacting Creamware first?

I'm just interested to know.

sure you can create a 4 card cable.MAYBE it'll work.maybe there'll be a pile of slag.

ask cw.

naa I'll just stick to making music...

I didn't know you could handle 4 cards... Can you imagine 4 SCOP or 4 Power Pulsar? That will make a mad 60 DSP Sharks!

On 2003-11-23 22:17, R-type wrote:

What's this about contacting Creamware first?

That is the exact part of the manual, wich gives you instructions to ask those who knows

That is the exact part of the manual, wich gives you instructions to ask those who knows

Perhaps they at CW know but don't want to share their knowledge. Or at least not to anyone. Have you noticed that they answer one person's questions regulary while they keep silent to another person's questions?

I've been in contact with Creamware support in the last few days since my PowerPulsar arrived with no I/O or metal bracket to install it into a case.

I asked them about having 4 cards and this was their exact reply...

"hi,

some custom made motherboard take 4 cards

however you can try but according to our testing only up to 3 can work on a
regular motherboard."

Perhaps the limit has something to do with the number of PCI slots you can assign to a single IRQ?

I would have preferred a more detailed response but then I only have three cards and one of them can't be installed until the rest of the parts arrive.


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R-type,

please keep us posted on this.

I would like to know also. I have 5 cards and the 2 redundant ones include a Pulsar II.

It would be nice to know if I can chuck this one in aswell.

Cheers.

I'm not sure I can get anything else out of them in terms of details.

However if you look at the STDM connectors you can see they are made from "off the shelf" parts.

If you took a STDM connector into a proper computer store they could easily make one for you with 4 connectors. I'm sure the parts only cost a few bucks.

Creamware are suggesting it's a motherboard limitation. SFP doesn't seem to care how many boards you have. You can set the board number in the CSET.ini file in the SFP directory appbin

You have to wonder when they did their testing...1999 or 2000?

Things have changed since then, if you can get a 4 connector STDM and get the IRQs sorted I can't see any reason why 4 won't work. However the big question is whether 4 boards will work reliably enough to be useful...

I had scope srb, pulsar1 and luna in one PC. I took out the Luna, because my overall PCI performance gor better from it = I can do more without it.