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A case of "plug and doesn't play"

There's a big difference between driver error and operator error in this case. According to fmak's post, the driver that came with his problem DAC did not allow for setting buffer sizes and was configured in such a way that the buffer size was too small. This is a driver problem, and can not reasonably be blamed on the "operator", who merely installed the appropriate driver for the device. (Presumably it was a case of "plug and doesn't play".)

If the driver came with a control panel allowing the buffer size to be manually set and fmak had set it too small and then complained, then it would have been operator error.

If there had been a control panel with a buffer size parameter and a default value that was too low, then perhaps there could be a reasonable debate about "operator error" vs. "driver error". Not in this case, assuming fmak's description is correct.



Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar


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