[Coco] DE1 - More data

[Steven Hirsch]

On Sun, 29 May 2011, Aaron Wolfe wrote:

> I recommend turning on "log protocol device bytes" in the advanced
> page of the instance config in DW.
> this will let you see every byte sent or received on the serial port,
> even if they don't add up to a valid operation.
> you also will want to turn the logging level to DEBUG or ALL.

I did have it on DEBUG.  There is simply nothing coming over the wire.

> The search for disks in drives 0-2 at power on is normal.

Yes, and I think that's actually done by an autonomous bit of code in 
Gary's design rather than the emulated machine.

> It sounds
> like you may have some switches set wrong on the board if it is
> returning immediately with an error.  Double check those, find out if
> there are other bytes coming over the wire,

No, nothing over the wire so this does seem like an improper setting - 
somewhere.  Thing is, I haven't touched the bloody thing since the 
beginning of the year and it was working at that point.  Oh, well.  Keeps 
life interesting.

> and maybe consider posting
> in the CoCo3FPGA board, Gary monitors that but I don't know if he
> reads this group.

Thanks, will do that.

Steve


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