Bill
Thu Jul 03 11:48:14 CDT 2003
> I feel your pain, it took me a while to get my mind around what they had
> done to my bus when 1394 came out.
Oops I meant when XP came out. They changed the Windows 1394 bus drivers
between Win98/2000 and WinMe/XP.
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Compuware Corporation
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"Bill McKenzie" <bill.mckenzie@compuware.com> wrote in message
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> I feel your pain, it took me a while to get my mind around what they had
> done to my bus when 1394 came out. But actually, they made some really
nice
> changes to 1394 for XP. Unfortunately, they made loading a driver for a
> fake device much more difficult. At the same time, they made the
emulation
> capabilities much more robust. So, while it is a pain, I am glad they
made
> the change.
>
> I tried to explain how this works somewhat in another post on this
newsgroup
> today under the topic "Virtual 1394 bus", I suggest you look this up.
>
> I am not sure of what your needs are as to how to recommend you proceed on
> XP. How is your 1394Diag setup controlling hardware on 2000, as in, what
> functionality exactly do you need to bring over? I get that an app is
> talking to your driver, but I don't know what your driver is doing enough
to
> help.
>
> --
> Bill McKenzie
> Compuware Corporation
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>
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>
>
> "Raj" <r_konjeti@mailcity.com> wrote in message
> news:8509fde8.0307021238.38e8d21f@posting.google.com...
> > I have a medical device which receives Async commands from an App
> > running on Windows2000. Windows 2000 App used modified 1394diag driver
> > and Microsoft Windows stack.
> >
> > Now I want to move to Windows XP and Microft XP Windows 1394 stack
> > and driver similar to 1394diag. Do I need 1394 virtual device. (like
> > 1394vdev.sys). When I have actual 1394 device connected, why should I
> > again create 1394 virtual device. Should I make any changes in INF and
> > configRom of device.
> >
> > For one 1394 device to talk with XP, do I need two drivers, virtual
> > and actual driver. Can someone make me understand this? Where can I
> > find info for this?
> >
> > Why should installing driver in XP be different from 2000 for pnp
> > devices like 1394.
>
>