[Coco] DriveWire with modern laptop?

[Roger Taylor]

At 11:38 PM 3/4/2008, you wrote:
>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

The IoGear adaptor does crash out sometimes.  You have to unplug the 
sucker to reset it.  I really need a better adaptor.