Nekonomicon - Fuel DMediaPro DM6 PCI Digital Video

smj
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Wrote the following at Dec. 20, 2010, 8:05 p.m...

I recently acquired a Fuel that included a DMediaPro DM6 PCI digital video option card. These seem to be rare beasts, so I thought I'd better put up what information I had about it. SGI part number for this example is 013-3745-002, and the board bears "DVS EDDY4" in a couple locations.

The station itself seems to be part of a turnkey solution possibly intended to run something called "Opal" - I found some traces of a digital asset management package, a video/image enhancement package, and a number of production outfits by that name via Google. I can say that this system also ran ObjectStore (v5), which I haven't run across in many years, and that it has dependencies on other machines in some kind of local network.

If you just want to see a couple photos, scroll down. First I'll put in some info from/about the card.

Code:

  Partial hinv output:
  
  PCI Adapter ID (vendor 4096, device 48) pci slot 1
  
  PCI Adapter ID (vendor 4096, device 48) pci slot 1
  
  PCI Adapter ID (vendor 5348, device 5701) pci slot 2
  
  PCI Adapter ID (vendor 4215, device 4630) pci slot 1
  
  PCI Adapter ID (vendor 4334, device 53585) pci slot 2
  
  PCI Adapter ID (vendor 4265, device 3) pci slot 4
  
  PCI Adapter ID (vendor 4165, device 51297) pci slot 5
  
  SD-DIGVID Standard Definition Digital Video: unit 0, revision 7.60.0

Code:

  Select output from dvsinfo:
  
  DVSINFO Information File
  
  ========================
  
  General Info
  
  ---------------------------------------
  
  Date:   2010/11/21 22:18:27
  
  dvsinfo: 2.5p22
  
  ...
  
  Driver Info
  
  ---------------------------------------
  
  driverinfo:
  
  version      2.5p33
  
  compiled     Aug 28 2002  12:42:20
  
  licence:
  
  ramsize      128 MB
  
  audio        0 channels
  
  beta         0
  
  diskrecorder 0
  
  disksize     0 MB
  
  duallink     0
  
  film2k       0
  
  film2kplus   0
  
  hd360        0
  
  hsdl         0
  
  keychannel   0
  
  mixer        1
  
  rgbsupport   1
  
  sdtv         1
  
  streamer     1
  
  ...
  
  hwinfo0:
  
  epldversion  73c00
  
  epldoptions  0f6fefff
  
  cardrevision 43201
  
  cardoptions  0000150f
  
  serialnr     19060503
  
  pciwidth     64
  
  pcispeed     33 MHz
  
  epld:
  
  pciif        7.60.0
  
  csrmux       1.0.13
  
  pixmux       1.0.19
  
  ...
  
  PCI Scan
  
  ---------------------------------------
  
  PCI Device List
  
  Vendor:10ee Id:d151 at bus:0 device:0 function:0
  
  Vendor : 'Xilinx' Device : 'DVS:SDBoard' rev:2
  
  ---------------------------------------
  
  PCI Dump
  
  ---------------------------------------
  
  PCI Device List
  
  Vendor:10ee Id:d151 at bus:0 device:0 function:0
  
  Vendor : 'Xilinx' Device : 'DVS:SDBoard' rev:2
  
  00 Vendor     10ee
  
  02 Device     d151
  
  04 Command    0006      Memory Master
  
  06 Status     0200      Devsel:Medium
  
  08 Revision   02
  
  09 Class      040000    MultimediaController VideoDevice
  
  0c Cacheline  00        Cachelinesize 0 bytes
  
  0d Latancy    f8        Latancy 248 PCI cycles
  
  0e Header     00        Header type:Normal
  
  0f BIST       00
  
  10 Addr0      00400000  00400000
  
  14 Addr1      02000000  02000000
  
  18 Addr2      00000000
  
  1c Addr3      00000000
  
  20 Addr4      00000000
  
  24 Addr5      00000000
  
  30 ExRom      00000000
  
  3c IntLine    ff
  
  3d IntPin     01
  
  3e Min Grant  01
  
  3f Max Lat    ff

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recondas
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Wrote the following at Dec. 20, 2010, 8:49 p.m...

Interesting - while similar, it is different than the DM6 I have. The DM6 was <originally> based on the DVS SDStation OEM, which has a slightly different layout <a line drawing illustrating the board layout can be seen on page 2-2 of the download-only manual http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/manuals ... 64-002.pdf >

Here's a photo of the one I have bearing an SGI part number label <just visible in the top right corner>. Of course, its very possible that SGI might have released a later or updated board with a different layout <yours is marked with part number 013-3745-002, while the one I have has 013-3745-001>:

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Wrote the following at Dec. 20, 2010, 9:22 p.m...

Another kind of interesting detail is smj's card is keyed for 3.3V and recondas' card is 3.3V/5V universal.

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Dr. Dave
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Wrote the following at Dec. 20, 2010, 10:29 p.m...

I have a few of them here, but they look like the -001 version with the green PCB. I also have some of the brackets with the cables which plug into the connectors on the top of the board, though these are likely not used when running in SGI mode. I think that these cards can also handle audio - but traditionally SGI's use a separate discrete audio path - so it likely goes unused.

Differences seem to be in the top connectors, obviously. I'd bet the boards are electrically and functionally equivalent, with the 'newer' board utilizing smaller parts, and looks like it has centralized the logic a bit more (one big Xilinx as opposed to a bunch of various glue FPGA/CPLD's), and since many Xilinx parts include internal RAM, you don't need external memory chips. This also might explain the '3V only' change as well. There also is significantly less heatsinking on the newer board, which also leads me to believe the newer board is evolutionary, as this all adds up to the sorts of changes boards go through from first revisions.

Supposedly the DM6 works in Octane too. Anyone remember offhand if they are keyed for 5V or 3V in the shoebox/shoehorns?

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Wrote the following at Dec. 21, 2010, 12:35 a.m...

Dr. Dave wrote:

Supposedly the DM6 works in Octane too. Anyone remember offhand if they are keyed for 5V or 3V in the shoebox/shoehorns?

Octane is 5V only, so they'd need to be the green 3.3V/5V version.

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Wrote the following at Jan. 11, 2011, 12:05 p.m...

I am new to nekochan so I'm quite sure of the etiquette - I would like to buy one of these Fuel Digital Video cards if possible - suggestions?

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Wrote the following at Jan. 11, 2011, 12:06 p.m...

I meant to say - not quite sure of....

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Wrote the following at Jan. 11, 2011, 12:25 p.m...

oldsgifan2011 wrote:

I am new to nekochan so I'm quite sure of the etiquette - I would like to buy one of these Fuel Digital Video cards if possible - suggestions?

Click here:
viewforum.php?f=5
Then click the "new topic" button.

Post the hinv of your Fuel in
viewforum.php?f=14

You can list your SGIs in your signature line as described in this topic:
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=16717997

R.

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Wrote the following at Jan. 28, 2011, 5:43 p.m...

I'd picked up some DVS SDStation boards awhile ago ( see thread here ) but wasn't having any luck with them. All three were passed on though I don't recall who got them at the moment. Have you been able to do anything with the DM6? I don't think we ever figured out if the boards I bought were really identical to what SGI sold and I don't think there's ever been much about the DM6 posted on the board.

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Wrote the following at Jan. 28, 2011, 6:04 p.m...

The DM6 relies upon OpenML rather than the traditional SGI video tools or libraries. So the old school IRIX video daemon, videod, doesn't recognize the board and won't load, which also means none of the other IRIX video capture tools work either. Using a combination of the DM6 software package provided by SGI and the SDK from DVS, the one I have will display a the RGB test screens, but that's as far as I got without an SD video source.

The situation is similar to that of the DM3, which is also OpenML based. The most widely known DM3 application(s) were provided by Discreet. So far I haven't found an equivalent app for the DM6.

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Wrote the following at Dec. 31, 2012, 9:07 p.m...

got one of these cards with my SGI fuel, and really, HAVE NOT IDEA WHAT TO DO WITH THIS CARD or WHAT CAN BE DONE.

suggestions??

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Wrote the following at Jan. 1, 2013, 12:51 p.m...

You could add OpenML drivers to e.g. Blender, Cinelerra, Kdenlive, LiVES, Ekiga or Linphone. If you need an IRIX dmedia audio driver before you build a nekoware package for any of those, I'll be glad to be of assistance.

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Wrote the following at Jan. 13, 2013, 8:17 a.m...

Hi all,

The 'Unofficial SGI320' website is back up and running:

www.sgi320.wordpress.com

For now it is just a slightly updated version of the old site. However, I will be adding some new information in the coming weeks, time permitting.

I hope you find the information useful.

cheers,

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Excellent! Thanks for reactivating the site, it was very handy when I was upgrading one of my SGI 320's to 1Ghz cpus.

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god, thanks man

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mmmm some ideas crossed my mind

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Wrote the following at Jan. 17, 2013, 8:51 a.m...

I have a broken SGI Indigo I'd like to fix, but I have no idea where to start.

The most obvious problem is that shortly after power on - two seconds, maybe three - a noise starts coming from the internal speaker. The sound becomes louder and louder with every second. No startup chime, no output on serial console.

My initial thought was a broken power supply, but a PSU repair guy I've found claims that power supply is ok and voltages are correct and clean. He also claims that he tried to bend the "mainboard" - probably the CPU board - slightly and this sometimes leads to the startup chime.

Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks :-)

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Wrote the following at Jan. 17, 2013, 2:18 p.m...

I don't really have a suggestion what can be wrong - but I would be interested in anything you find out. My Indigo R3000's speaker stopped working (no chime at boot-up) after i replaced the TOD battery. A little later the PSU shorted out, check the thread under "getting started" for details.
Having to bend the board suggests that there is something wrong with the attachment to the backplane?

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Wrote the following at Jan. 18, 2013, 3:03 a.m...

trasz wrote:

... a PSU repair guy I've found claims that power supply is ok and voltages are correct and clean. He also claims that he tried to bend the "mainboard" - probably the CPU board - slightly and this sometimes leads to the startup chime.

I'm out of my depths here, but my reaction is A) don't bend the boards while powered; B) if the board he's bending is fitted to a backplane slot, it isn't seating well, try cleaning the fingers (if relevant) and re-seating; C) if it was more like an Indy or Indigo2 mainboard, I'd want to carefully examine the solder joints of the through-hole pins on any connectors like power, backplane, etc. The close to the point of flexing, the more closely I'd examine them. But I humbly defer to somebody with relevant training in these matters.

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