I am writing an window audio driver by Microsoft Window Driver Development Kit(DDK) for window XP. I have followed the archecture of the driver sample code provided under the folder SB16 which are using WaveCyclic Interface and Slave Channel method to build the sound card audio driver. However, since our chip on the sound card have not provide us the default channel, we use the Master Channel method to create DMA channel and using allocate buffer API similar as Slave method provided in the sample code. ------------------------------------------------------------ e.g. ntStatus = Port->NewMasterDmaChannel ( &MyDmaChannel, // OutDmaChannel NULL, // OuterUnknown (opt) NULL, // ResourceList (opt) MAXLEN_DMA_BUFFER, //Maximum Length TRUE, // Dma32BitAddresses FALSE, // Dma64BitAddresses Width32Bits, // DmaWidth Compatible ); // DmaPort if (NT_SUCCESS(ntStatus)) { ULONG lDMABufferLength = MAXLEN_DMA_BUFFER; do { ntStatus = MyDmaChannel->AllocateBuffer(lDMABufferLength,NULL); lDMABufferLength >>= 1; _DbgPrintF(DEBUGLVL_TERSE, ("lDMABufferLength = 0x%x", lDMABufferLength)); } while (!NT_SUCCESS(ntStatus) && (lDMABufferLength > (PAGE_SIZE / 2))); } if (NT_SUCCESS(ntStatus)) { .... AdapterCommon->WriteMCControlRegister((ULONG)PLAYBACK_DMA_CURRENT_BASE_ADDR, (ULONG)MyDmaChannel->PhysicalAddress().QuadPart); .... ------------------------------------------------------------ However no matter how we tried, we cannot get the audio sound out. We have seen in the debugger that all the register of our chip is now controllable and the address of the allocate addressed is sured can written to our audio chip. We have seen the sequence in the window such as: -------------------- [ValidateFormat] [SetNotificationFreq] [ServiceWaveISR] [SetState] -------------------- can be runned under the testing on debugger. I have seen from the MSDN help menu that for master channel, user need to use the API "copyto", "copyfrom" to copy data from and to the audio buffer. It seems that it is not necessary in the slave channel method. Is it really necessary in the master channel method? And how can I know the address of where the data come from when Window Media wave file? I have no method to fill in the parameter of the "copyto", "copyfrom" API to use them. Or anyone can post the reference code for masterchannel of Driver? Thans you very much Best Regards, Peter