[Coco] DriveWire with modern laptop?

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 05 March 2008, J.P. Samson wrote:
>On Mar 4, 2008, at 10:11 PM, Roger Taylor wrote:
>> At 11:09 PM 3/4/2008, you wrote:
>>> I'm trying to find out if anyone uses the DriveWire system with a
>>> laptop having no built-in serial port, using a USB to Serial adaptor.
>>>
>>> My IOGear adaptor seems to insert COM5 into the ports instead of a
>>> 1,2,3, or 4.
>>
>> I see now in the DriveWire 2.0 docs that you can choose COM1-COM6 on
>> the PC.
>
>I'm curious to hear how well that adapter works for you.  I think
>IOGear is using a Prolific chipset, which I was warned might have
>reliability issues.
>
>I have a generic FTDI-based adapter that works great on a PC, but no
>luck on a Mac.
>
This has been my experience also, FTDI just works.  pl2303's like to toss the 
first byte in a packet in the bit bucket.

>JP
>
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