[Coco] serial port problem

[Mathieu Bouchard]

Le 2013-10-31 à 19:36:00, Bill Pierce a écrit :

> Mathieu, Drivewire uses special software and protocol to run the Coco at 
> 115200 baud.

Well, it's so special, that I don't even know whether it uses the cable at 
all. I downloaded hdbdw4cc3 onto the CoCo using CLOADM:EXEC, and started 
DW4 on the Linux machine, but now all I get when I DIR from the CoCo is 
?IO ERROR.

BTW the port detection problem is fixed already : I had to change 
permissions on /dev/ttyS0 (COM1).


> This is why I say old baud rates do not apply. You do not "set" the baud 
> rate for dw4 on the Coco. That is done in hdbdos and Os9 drivers. Leave 
> the baud rate at the default value.

Look, the reason for using Terminate and UltimaTerm is to test that the 
cable is able to talk at high enough speeds to make it likely that 
Drivewire would work. With the above setup, I don't know what's going on.

On the CoCo3 in HDBDOS 1.4 DW, I also tried this :

DRIVE OFF
BACKUP 0 TO 4
?IO ERROR (after a few seconds of reading nonvirtual drive 0)

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