[Coco] DriveWire with modern laptop?

[J.P. Samson]

On Mar 4, 2008, at 10:11 PM, Roger Taylor wrote:
> At 11:09 PM 3/4/2008, you wrote:
>> I'm trying to find out if anyone uses the DriveWire system with a  
>> laptop having no built-in serial port, using a USB to Serial adaptor.
>>
>> My IOGear adaptor seems to insert COM5 into the ports instead of a  
>> 1,2,3, or 4.
>
> I see now in the DriveWire 2.0 docs that you can choose COM1-COM6 on  
> the PC.

I'm curious to hear how well that adapter works for you.  I think  
IOGear is using a Prolific chipset, which I was warned might have  
reliability issues.

I have a generic FTDI-based adapter that works great on a PC, but no  
luck on a Mac.

JP