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

Joel Ewy jcewy at swbell.net
Tue Jan 14 10:32:57 EST 2014


On 01/13/2014 11:18 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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?

Sure do.  Gave it group and world r/w just to cover all the bases, but 
that doesn't solve it.

JCE
>>
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> Cheers, Gene




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