pulsar .. added to pulsar 2

evdb · Post by **evdb** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 1:41 am

just a simple question, not about performance etc. i've got a P2 card. A friend of mine offers to sell his old P1 card to me. what will happen if i plug in the P1 card. (not directly connected to P2, only by PCI) ?
Does scope software see 10 DSP's, or .....?

cheers

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 1:42 am

Check this topic

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 2:17 am

and don't forget to connect the cards by the S/TDM cable (as Ali mentions), otherwise it will not work - (afaik) only the very first versions of Scope tried to use the PCI bus for communication (with 'horrible' results)

have fun, Tom

evdb · Post by **evdb** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 5:19 am

Does this mean that, when i connect a second Pulsarcard to my first via S/TDM, it will "overrule" the PCI connection of the second card ?
Will the second card then behave like a booster-card ?
Do i have to install a driver for the second card ??

Post by **hubird** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 5:25 am

just plug the card

Check the number of DSPs in the DSP load settings window, they double

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 7:18 am

no need to worry, the Scope software already knows about all the different IO options of the cards, and a driver for OS communication (Win or Mac) is already installed.

Your case is adding a generation 1 to an installed generation 2 card.
Ignore any driver install requests, as the new card (Pulsar One) might be detected by the OS before the already installed Scope.

You would want to keep the order of the existing card as #0 (master) and the Pulsar as #1.

There are 2 methods to achieve this:

put the Pulsar One in another slot (so it's found after the Scope)

or edit the file cset.ini (in SFP/App/Bin) and add the lines

[board0]
boardid=1
[board1]
boardid=0

of course this applies only if the 4 DSP card is listed before the 6 DSP card in the DSP load window.
If the 6 DSP card is in the first position you can ignore the previous paragraph(s), as all is perfect

It's mentioned here in advance to keep you from unnecessary re-installations.

cheers, Tom