Firmware is the most current, 1.4.5 I think?
There are 2 kinds of CFC's, can't remember the brands off hand- but I've used them both plenty of times before with no problems.
The day after the show, I set up my rig to try replicating the problem, and could not get the MT to 'see' the coax signal coming from the FastTrack. The unit powered on, went to the record screen, and when I hit record, the counter appeared, but was not moving, it just stayed in 'Record' and the timer stayed at 0:00:00. I stuck a friend MT at the end of the chain, and his worked fine, so the problem has to be the MT, right? Well, then I stuck my MT at the end of HIS rig (v3>ad2k), and it picked up the signal just fine. So that night I taped the whole show with my stuff, no problem. Next night, I get to the Calvin, and the MT won't pick up a signal again. Very weird stuff.