Configure the samplerate clock and channel count during acquisition
start in identical ways for 50MHz, 100MHz, and 200MHz modes.
This part was inspired by work done by jry@ yet was addressed in
different ways (no exception, do everything in every mode the same way).
Eliminate a portability issue in the previous implementation. Make sure
to send the configuration bytes in the correct order to the hardware.
Don't typecase a struct reference to a bytepointer and hope that the
internal memory representation might fit the external hardware's idea.