[Coco] DriveWire problem

[Tormod Volden]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 3:40 AM, Steven Hirsch <snhirsch at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Feb 2016, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 5:07 PM, Steven Hirsch <snhirsch at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Some usb-serial adapters have settings that cause some number of bytes to
>> be queued up before they are delivered to the computer.  There is usually
>> a
>> timeout where even a single byte will eventually get delivered, but with
>> just the wrong settings you could probably get this to happen even if all
>> the bytes are transmitted perfectly by the coco.  That, or any other kind
>> of serial port issue might be involved.  If you can verify the serial port
>> and cabling works fine that would be a good thing to do.
>
>
> Ugh.  I suppose it's possible that my trusty FTDI USB/Serial adapter has
> developed problems.

I have heard about issues with FTDI usb-serial adapters on Linux where
single bytes are "held back" or doesn't make it to the wire in time
[1]. I'd suggest trying another adapter.

Tormod

[1] https://sourceforge.net/p/stm32flash/tickets/88/