Re: [Openeeg-list] Warning: Prolific Technologies' Driver Attn.Joerg, Chris

[Morgan R. <mor...@gm...>]

On 6/30/07, Ray Cole <ray...@ms...> wrote:
> Hmm, don't know what to say about that one.  I am using the Windows XP OS,
> too.  And I know that others have had the same problem, as well, as there
> has been chatter on this site from at least three other people that I can
> remember, in the past, warning about the Prolific driver.

I work with serial comms a lot in my job and in my experience prolific
cables and/or drivers have been atrociously unstable and unreliable, I
have seen a prolific cable which would work perfectly the first time
you connected across it but then once you disconnect it would not work
again until a reboot, I've also seen random BSOD's caused by them in
Windows, my suspicion lies with the driver.

Mind I haven't used a prolific cable in some time (we now insist that
all the comms ports being used with our application are "real" comms
ports with "real" FIFO's (read 16550A's or later) and they may have
improved.

> We are talking, here, about the interface between the pl-2303 and only
> Brainbay, remember.  Have you had success with it, when running Brainbay,
> specifically?

I've not finished building my modEEG yet so I've not tested prolific
cables against brainbay, all I can say is that in my experience in
other areas with prolific cables have on the whole been bad.

I'd be curious to know what application David was using the cable with/in.