ICPCI "black line" wierdness

["Dr. Michael Albert" <albert@esther.rad.tju.edu>]

Dear Friends:

I was warned (by Mr. Stein) that there might be problems with 
the IC-PCI card resulting in defects of the form of black pieces of
lines of 128 or 256 pixels length.  I am indeed seeing these.
(For the record, again, an IC-PCI/AM-DIG acquisition with SMD 130P 
camera).  But the behavoir is a bit unusual.

If I run
   test_itifg -f <camfile>
with the camera in "free running" mode  the black lines 
on the image on the monitor are numerous and "jump around" in the image.

If I run
  test_itifg -f <camfile> -o mmap
the lines aren't present.

If I attempt to save images to a file, for example:
  test_itifg -f <camfile> -o mmap -t -i <file>
the lines *reappear*, but they no longer jump around, but instead
in the first image I have lots of lines, in the second image
I have only a few lines which are a *subset* of the lines
in the first image.

I am still testing some things, but I thought this behavoir
so odd that I might ask if anyone has any ideas.

Again, thanks for all the help, especially Mr. Stein.

Sincerely,
 Mike