Mystery solved.
I am waiting for some of my adat gear to get here so there was no way to test it other than to believe what the mixer was telling me, which was that there was no dif-at24 attached.
Then I remembered that I had an ada8000 ad converter in my other room that I could try. So I plugged it in and plugged my bass into it and then sent it thru the dif-at24 to the vm-7100 and it worked perfectly, giving proper levels in the mixer and sounding clean as a whistle. It still is not showing up in the mixer as existing at all on the R-bus, though.
So, what this means is that - even with System 1.72 - The Roland doesn't recognize the DIF-AT24 in software. It will not show up at all as being connected - even though it is working fine.
I am guessing that because the Dif-AT24 didn't exist when the mixers were made, they have no syntax in the OS to acknowledge them, even in 1.72, the last os they came out with. Hopefully everything else is cool and the full 24bit path is preserved, which I am near certain would be the case.
Luckily this mixer is old school enough that it isn't all handled in software internally. Even though it thinks the dif-at24 is not there, my cable is, so it works.
I am guessing that midi in/outs won't work but who knows maybe they will too somehow, not that I need them to.
So for any vm 7000 series mixer owners, unless you have seen otherwise, I think this is how it will always work - classic Roland.
...crickets chirping...
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