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ubCore™ 1394a - 1394b Windows drivers Product History


August 2008 - Version 5.52

  • Added: Fire-i X ActiveX control/SDK library in ubCore Pro runtimes.
  • Fixed: SBP2 driver crash in volumes larger than 4 TB.
  • Fixed: SBP2 driver fails to recognize multiple external hard drives at boot.
  • Fixed: NMI system crash on certain Xeon systems during isochronous transmit.
  • Fixed: SBM produces gap_count 63 when the zero ping bug is in effect.

June 2008 - Version 5.51

  • Added: Support for RAID external hard drive enclosures.
  • Added: Fire-i Ms stack (fidcam.sys) added in ubCore Pro setup.
  • Added: Add capability in CFiCamera to select the video format with a GUI.
  • Fixed: Image streaming freezing periodically at 60 fps (or more) in Firei application.
  • Many improvements and various minor fixes in FireViewer, ubSwitch, FireIIDC utilities.

February 2008 - Version 5.50

  • Added: DMA channel multiplexing at the driver level, completely transparent to user mode.
  • Added: NDIS 6.0 support for Firenet driver in Windows Vista 32/64 bit for improved performance.
  • Added: Maximum 64 adapters supported by all drivers in ubCore.
  • Added: RAW-8 mode support in Fire-i WDM driver and Firei.dll.
  • Added: RAW mode support and Format-7 color codings in Firei.dll. (ubCore Pro only)
  • Added: Advanced features support in new Sony, PointGrey and AVT 1394b cameras. (ubCore Pro only)
  • Added: Many new features/commands in FireViewer, FireCommander and Fire-i IIDC applications (ubCore Pro only)

October 2007 - Version 5.21

  • Fixed: Significant improvement in system stability on Windows Vista when sleeping/resuming with FireNet installed.
  • Fixed: Fatal NMI error during setup on specific computer hardware with 1394b PCI adapters.
  • Fixed: Incorrect isochronous timeout handling causes OS resource leaks on x86/x64 systems.
  • Fixed: Serial Bus Manager driver now supports more than 4 firewire adapters.
  • Fixed: IIDC camera driver (UBDCAM.SYS) sets initial max packet size for Format 7 correctly.
  • Added: DMA limit for iso operations based on operating system and hardware.
  • Added: IIDC camera driver (UBDCAM.SYS) automatically breaks image iso requests according to DMA limit.

June 2007 - Version 5.20

  • Added support for LSI (Agere) FW643 1394b to PCI express chipset.
  • Added ISO command in FireCommander for performing isochronous operations.
  • Fixed: system crash when doing multiple concurrent isochronous receives.
  • Fixed: Firei.exe crashes sometimes when copying video file after capture. (ubCore Pro only)

May 2007 - Version 5.13

  • Singed drivers for Windows Vista 32 and 64 bit editions.
  • Added: x86 FireAPI applications can run on x64 systems.
  • Added: 64-bit Fire-i application on x64 systems. (ubCore Pro only)
  • Dual x86/x64 DirectShow Filter support on x64 systems. (ubCore Pro only)
  • NEW!: FireIIDC™ camera control application, based on firei.dll  (ubCore Pro only)

January 2007 - Version 5.12

  • Added: Complete and improved redesign of the installation engine.
  • Fixed: Improved support for Windows Vista (RTM)
  • Fixed: IIDC drivers fail to operate with cameras that fail read/write requests with resp_conflict.
  • Fixed: Improved support for AVT Pike 1394b cameras.
  • Fixed: High resolution image streams cause IIDC driver video to halt.

December 2006 - Version 5.11

  • Added: Windows Vista (32 bit) support.
  • Added: Multiple new commands in FireCommander & ubTweak utilities (ubCore Pro only)
  • Fixed: Maxtor One-Touch™ external 1394b hard drives incompatibility
  • Fixed: Multiple Firenet network driver power management issues
  • Fixed: Minor issues with specific IIDC cameras which respond with delay in very fast computers (ubCore Pro only)

October 2006 - Version 5.10

  • Added: Custom Configuration ROM contents (virtual devices).
  • New improved SDK license/activation utility.
    (ubCorePro only)
  • Added: Ability to change the maximum address range size.
  • Added: Multiple freeing of Map Registers by ubohci.sys.
  • Fixed various issues in the isochronous engine.
  • New enhanced versions of ubTweak, FireCommander and ubSwitch utilities. (ubCore Pro only)
  • Various bug fixes in IIDC and Firenet drivers
 

June 2006 - Version 5.0

  • Important bug fixes and driver performance improvements.
  • Added ubTweak™, driver configuration/tuning utility
    (ubCorePro only).
  • Added support for Oxford 922 RAID external hard drives (SBP2 driver).
  • The drivers are now compliant with 1394 Trade Association Base 1394 test.
  • Added ability to disable Plug & Play for certain devices.

February 2006 - Version 4.0

  • Full Windows Plug & Play support. Easy switch between Unibrain and Microsoft driver via a single click ("ubswitch" application).
  • Added support for Windows Power Management.
  • Added support for Windows 2003 Server Operating System.
  • Added support for Windows XP 64 bit (AMD Athlon 64 and Intel EM64t).
  • Added IIDC 1394 cameras DirectShow WDM compliant driver and control application.
  • Added support for 1394b (Firewire-800) IIDC cameras.
  • Added support for S1600/S3200.

July 2003 - Version 3.0

  • Added support for 1394b (Firewire-800).
  • Added support for SBP2 interface.
  • Added FireShare application.
  • Added support for FireBoard Blue™.
  • Added support for FireBoard 800™.
  • Added support for PCMCIA OHCI cards.
  • Added support for optical cables and repeaters.

April 2002 - Version 2.1

  • Added support for Windows XP.
  • Added support for 3rd party OHCI cards.

September 2001 - Version 2.0

  • Added support for FireBoard 400-OHCI card.
  • Added support for Windows ME.

July 2000 - Version 1.6

  • Added support for Windows 2000.

June 1999 - Version 1.5

  • Added support for IIDC cameras.
  • Added support for Windows 98SE.

June 1998 - Version 1.0

  • Support FireBoard-400 Lynx-2 PCI adapter.
  • Supports Windows NT 4.0.
  • Supports Kernel mode for driver development.
  • Supports User mode for application development.
  • Supports FireWire Networking via the FireNet application.

  • Supports 1394 bus viewer via the FireViewer application.

  • Supports 1394 command interpreter via the FireCommander application
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