The yes, use the legacy driver (which is actually the Vista driver) by all means. There is a bug in the new Win7 1394 drivers that manifests itself as several problems; the excessive DPC and CPU load is one of them.
-Tim -----Original Message----- From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Russell Magnuson Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2010 11:36 AM To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Legacy vs. Current (?) Firewire Drivers? Ah, good question (and I should have noted that), Win7 (Home Premium Edition). - Russ On 10/24/10 11:32 AM, "Tim Ellison" <telli...@itsco.com> wrote: > What operating system are you using? > > > -Tim > > > -----Original Message----- > From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz > [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Russell > Magnuson > Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2010 11:01 AM > To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz > Subject: [Flexradio] Legacy vs. Current (?) Fireware Drivers? > > Just for the heck of it I switched over to the ³legacy² driver for my > firewire port (FYI<I am connected to the Flex-3000 through my Fujitzu > laptop). I noticed that on the DPC test I am getting (seemingly) about > a 25-30% reduction in time (or said another way, a 25-35% boost in > throughput). Any reason not to leave it using the legacy driver? The > 3000 seemed to work fine with the regular driver, too. > > Thanks in advance, > Russ, KF1K > > > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio Systems Mailing List > FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: > http://www.flexradio.com/ > _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/ _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
