If you use a JVC deck in Vista 64…

[John Rofrano]

> JVC says it’s a MS issue(and they have no drivers)

Yup. and unfortunately they are correct!

I don’t have an answer for you but I can offer another data point:

I have the same exact problem with my Sony HVR-DR60 Hard Disk Recording unit. Vista 64 is complaining that it doesn’t know what it is and is asking for drivers (which don’t exist) while Windows XP Pro recognizes it just fine as a hard drive and it works perfectly. Because of this, I have to do all of my captures in XP.

Vista is another Microsoft mess that can’t used for production work without having an XP Pro system nearby to work around all of the problems. (very frustrating) 🙁

~jr

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[Willie Bobo]

Thanks for the reply John,
…Vista 64 is complaining that it doesn’t know what it is and is asking for drivers (which don’t exist)…
Vista recognizes my deck (and lists it as JVC SR-VS30) but ya…says it can’t find drivers for it.
Am I wrong to think that the generic Vista drivers named ksthunk.sys, and msdv.sys (that another JVC deck user said work for his deck and that are used for my camera (Canon XL1S) would work?
If they would/might is there a way to force Vista 64 to use them?
Thanks again John,
Randy

[John Rofrano]

> Vista recognizes my deck (and lists it as JVC SR-VS30)

Actually, it doesn’t. It is just reading the name of the unknown device from a known location. It’s part of the device protocol. So Vista asks the device it’s name, the device replied with the string “JVC SR-VS30” and Vista has no idea what that means but it looks to you like it recognised it becasue it knew it’s name. It just knows that there is a device with a name and nothing more.

> Am I wrong to think that the generic Vista drivers named ksthunk.sys, and msdv.sys (that another JVC deck user said work for his deck and that are used for my camera (Canon XL1S) would work?

I’d imagine that if they would have worked, Vista would have used them. I don’t know how you could force Vista to use them. You migth try the Add Hardware option in the Control Panel and try and find those drivers and see if Vista will use them but if there is no INF file I don’t think it will work.

~jr

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[Willie Bobo]

So Vista asks the device it’s name, the device replied with the string “JVC SR-VS30” and Vista has no idea what that means but it looks to you like it recognised it becasue it knew it’s name. It just knows that there is a device with a name and nothing more.

Vista is stoopid

My case has finally escalated to “an Escalation Engineer for the Windows Vista Support Team” and he had me do a bunch of (what seemed to be) redundant crap and then create a C:\Windows\inf\setupapi.dev.log file to send to him.
I’ll report back if/when we learn what the heck is going on.
Thanks for your patience John,
Randy

[Rene Esselink]

i have also problems to initatilsate my jvc deck under vista 32 bits with pinnacle no support from pinnacle and from jvc so when sombody get the wright drivers please let me no
sorry for my english still praticing

JVC FAN

[Bill Jones]

Did anyone find a way to get Vista 64 to recognize this (SR-VS30U) deck?

Thanks,

Bill

[Saturn Padua]

I’m having the same issue in Win 7 x64. (Adobe CS5; JVC SR-VS30)