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

Joel Ewy jcewy at swbell.net
Tue Jan 14 10:56:30 EST 2014


On 01/14/2014 09:32 AM, Joel Ewy wrote:
> 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

I may have had a rogue server instance running.  Killed some processes 
and now I can load disk images.  Not getting any joy over the serial 
port yet for some reason, but I'll keep playing with it.

JCE

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>> Cheers, Gene
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