Michael F. Toups replied to the topic 'Help with DIY CCD driver' in the forum. 7 years ago

(Still using sudo.)

However, I think I found the key issue that is causing the read errors. It is that the ftdi library's ftdi_read_data and the D2XX FT_Read have very different behaviors. See developer.intra2net.com/mailarchive/html...i/2012/msg00149.html for example. Looks like we might need to implement some variant of the function given in the patch. However, that version appears to be windows specific but could easily be linux compatible (it uses windows timer function.)

Need to investigate further but I think this is the key issue; it looks like there should be an easy fix. I'll investigate further.

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