The reason I ask is because I recently bought an other firewire device (CF Card Reader), however I unable to get windows 98 to recognize it. Now I'm trying to determine of the card reader is faultily or if the DV Now hardware simply does not support the use of other devices?
DV.now is an OHCI compliant card, but it uses non-OHCI drivers. FAST developed proprietary drivers and codec for it, because we believe they are superior to the standard OHCI ones. You can let Windows install generic, OHCI drivers rather than the FAST drivers, but then you would lose all the benefits of FAST.forward and the FAST DV codec. So, in your case it would probably be better to use a USB card reader.
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Thank you very much for your response. Using standard OHCI drivers worked! Since I’ve already purchased a firewire card reader I would prefer to make it work in my existing setup.
I've come up with two possible solutions –
1)I have win98/win2k duel boot setup. I could load the DV Now drivers under one OS and standard OCHI drivers into the other.
2)In win98 (which is where DV NOW is installed) I could create another hardware profile which would have the OCHI drive installed instead if the DV NOW. Then on bootup I could choose which profile to enter.
Can you see any problems with either of these workarounds?
Thanks
Jonathan
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[This message has been edited by jon26l (edited 04 May 2001).]
[This message has been edited by jon26l (edited 04 May 2001).]
1) Yes, go for this option - it should solve the problem.
2) I do no think this will work. You can enable or disable devices in different Hardware Profiles but not install different drivers for the same device.
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