Re: Data I/O and Windows XP

Actually, I take that back. I needed to re-setup some things in Promlink.
But now it's just doing the same thing as it was before.

The questions still stands about enabling flow control. :)

Thanks

Matt

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:19:40 -0700, Matt Rossiter <matt@rossiters.com>
wrote:
> Thanks Mike!
>
> Let me just confirm a couple of things if you don't mind.
>
> 1) I'm using the same cable/null modem that works when I'm using
Windows98
> - Is that fine?
> 2) On my computer settings I have the serial port configured as Com1,
> 9600,
> 8, none, 1, and hardware flow control enabled. - does that sound good?
My
> other option for flow control is XON/XOFF.
> 3) In the promlink configuration I have the programmer port set to Com1,
> 9600, 8, none, and 1. There's no option to set flow control. Is there a
> way to set that in Promlink?
>
> I tried the new PL.SET file but now it complains about Port1 and Port2.
I
> can't communicate with the programmer at all. Just wondering if I'm
> missing something.
>
> Thanks for all the help.
>
> Matt
>
>
>>> On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:40:37 +0100, Mike Coates <mike@the-coates.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> I've used promlink on XP without problem (but then I patched it!)
>>>>
>>>> If you have no flow control, you are losing data during the transfer -
>
>>>> simple commands are only a single byte, but file transfer either way
> is
>>
>>>> going to send large amounts of info.
>>>>
>>>> you also say you are using com1, but the error indicates that it's
>>>> trying to use com2 initially - I've attached my config file, def. com1
>> -
>>>> but with flow control enabled - has worked for me using a cable made
> to
>>
>>>> the specs on the leopardcats web page.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Matt Rossiter wrote:
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm hooking up a laptop to a Data I/O UniPak 2B Eprom Programmer and
>>>>> connected through a USB to Serial adapter made by Airlink. I'm using
>>>>> Promlink 6.10, which is the patched version from MikesArcade.com.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://mikesarcade.com/arcade/promlink.html
>>>>>
>>>>> My Settings are Com1, 9600 Baud, Parity None, Data Bits 8, Stop Bits
> 1
>>>> and
>>>>> of course flow control is off. I/O Format is current set to Absolute
>>>>> Binary.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've read some of the threads before on this and I seem to be running
>>>> into
>>>>> a similar problem regarding trying to send and receive eprom data. I
>>>> can
>>>>> do things such as blank checks, selecting devices, reading eproms,
>> etc.
>>>>>
>>>>> 1) First of all, when I initially start up Promlink, I always get
>> this
>>>>> message "16 Bit MS-DOS Subsystem - pl.exe The system cannot open Com2
>>>> port
>>>>> requested by the application. Choose 'Close' to terminate the
>>>> application.
>>>>>
>>>>> Rather than choosing 'Close' I click 'Ignore' and get in.
>>>>>
>>>>> 2) When I read eproms, I can do so and get a sumcheck, but if I save
>>>> them
>>>>> to a file I can't identify the file using romident.
>>>>>
>>>>> 3) When I try to send a file to the programmer I will see a progress
>> bar
>>>>> quickly go to 100% and it will wait indefinitely with a "Waiting for
>>>>> programmer response..." message.
>>>
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