[Coco] Real close with DriveWire 4 on Raspberry Pi, but...

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 14 January 2014 00:17:10 Joel Ewy did opine:

> On 01/13/2014 11:02 PM, Joel Ewy wrote:
> > Got OpenJDK 7 installed on Raspbian, and the SWT libraries, downloaded
> > and updated to DW4.3.3p.  The GUI runs, and the wizard finds the USB
> > serial port.  All looks great, but when I try to load a disk image, I
> > get the "Inserting disk image..." dialog box for a little, and then it
> > is replaced by a dialog box titled "Error while sending commands":
> > Read timed out.  And the disk image is not loaded.
> > 
> > I recall there was once a problem with the GUI on the RPi.  It
> > otherwise seems like it's going to work (aside from the fact that it
> > can't find a Mozilla browser).  Is this a known issue?  I can try
> > running the GUI on another machine, or just using it without, but not
> > tonight.
> > 
> > JCE
> 
> Actually, it also happens if I send the command on the little command
> line at the bottom, like:
> dw disk insert 0
> /home/pi/CoCo_Disk_Images/nos96809l2v030209coco3_becker.dsk
> 
> So I doubt it is a GUI issue.  What would cause the read to time out
> loading a disk image from a local filesystem?
> 
> JCE
> 
filesystem permissions?  As in do you the user have permission to access 
that .dsk file?
> 
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