Trying to make a compact machine with a 2 ae assemblers, each with 4 interfaces.
Dense cable links outside and inside, but connecting to it via smart cables wont let all interfaces get a channel...

Extending on this, putting patterns into the interface, then breaking the CM block does not give back the patterns

I had no troubles with AE cables, using a dense cable inside and outside the same "tap" of the compact machine, with the tap setted to Auto let me bring in\out all 32 channels.

Are you sure you didn't messed up something else maybe?

perhaps...im playing dns techpack and some of the interactions in that pack can be a bit weird

Currently working on a 1.10.2 version, the 1.7.10 version is not being maintained anymore, sorry.
Closing all issues not relevant for the new version.