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PVR problems

    17-Jul-95 23:34:25
Sb: #180619-PVR problems
Fm: Terry Miller 72400,3306
To: Peter Knowles 71610,617
Peter, Looking over some literature I have on the PVR, it seems that it is designed to work with a DAT or Exabyte tape backup. It also says that "PVR kernel level drivers enable hard drives attached to the Perception board to appear as standard system drive letters". Are you saying that you cannot access PVR hard drives from DOS, or Windows, or other file managers? Now you've got me curious. I have a system due to be shipped tomorrow or the next day, and was planning to use a writable CD ROM for backups. If I cannot access the data using something like laplink or XTree, it may be a little more complicated than I thought. Maybe the software that comes with the CD handles all this? As for as the little glitches you were speaking of. Mine appears to have a "jittering" problem when larger animations are played through it. These only appear on certain frames and not throughout the entire animation. Murph has been in touch with the folks at Digital every day, and they promised a 2 day fix. Of course that was 4 days ago. <G> Anyway, they are aware of the problem and assure us that they are very close to writing the code to fix this problem. I have no doubt that they will. I would be very interested in any information you turn up about the hard drive situation. Thanks, Terry