[Coco] DriveWire 3

Tim Fadden t.fadden at cox.net
Sat Apr 4 16:29:32 EDT 2009


J.P. Samson wrote:
> On Apr 4, 2009, at 2:14 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Saturday 04 April 2009, J.P. Samson wrote:
>>> On Apr 4, 2009, at 12:25 PM, Roger Taylor wrote:
>>>> First, let me mention that I sell HQ bitbanger cables.  I test them
>>>> not only at 115200 bps, but at twice that speed using a certain
>>>> person's unannounced bitbanger routines.  Not only that, but my
>>>> cables are tested using an IOGear USB to Serial adaptor.  With that
>>>> being said, I doubt that my cables are the reason I'm having trouble
>>>> with DW3.
>>>
>>> I believe IOGear uses Prolific chipsets for their USB-to-serial
>>> adapters, yes?
>>>
>> Hoo boy, if they do, that is Rogers problem for sure.  FTDI chipsets 
>> are the
>> magic twanger.
>
> Just to double check, I downloaded the driver from the IOGear website 
> for their one-port USB-to-serial adapter.  Yup, it is a Prolific:  
> PL-2303.
>
> -- JP
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Ya,  They are called prolific, because just about everybody uses them, 
and they are!

Tim



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