Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 11:45:27 +0100 From: "Avi Cohen Stuart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works!
Hi Matt, > >From: "Avi Cohen Stuart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >I got the card running with 98SE, W2K and XP. But only with > XP I got it >stable enough. > > What kinds of issues did you have with stabilty in W98 & W2K? W98 the playback was not smooth and with W2K I got BSOD in stream.sys from time to time. > > >Just got a BSOD in stream.sys under XP as well... maybe I should try 95 > >again or work again on the linux driver... > > And XP was more stable for you!? I'll be interested in > hearing how W95 works for you. Yesterday I tried a test with a PCMCIA DVD drive to try to follow up on what Phillip wrote in relation to thruput speed ISA vs PCI/PCMCIA. For some reason my Freecom drive isn't pushing bytes fast enough into the Margi. As I have the sources of the Margi driver I have to check if I didn't make a slight change somewhere in the code as my tests that I did (before my 40Gb hd drive made problems) a couple of months ago was with DVD's ripped to the HD. Also I played a bit with the bios setting by letting the OS do the irq assignments. That didn't made any real difference as far as I could see. I diff-ed the code I got vs the changes I made and I'm going to do a test again with my modified driver. The changes are little but might be significant. I don't know if I'm going to reinstall W95 again to check dvd replay. I might either try to write an own driver without leaning on Kernel Streams and reuse the existing sources partially and make a user mode driver with giveio or something else. (If i find some time.) Avi. N.B. For NDA reasons I cannot share the source code.
