[Coco] usb to serial adaptors and drivewire

[Aaron Wolfe]

In my experience, they work fine most of the time.  I've used both DW3
and DW4 with a variety of adapters on a variety of computers and OSes.
Never found a combination that doesn't work at all, but Windows 7 + a
cheap Prolific adapter would cause a blue screen of death every few
days of continuous operation.   It seems almost all adapters have
either Prolific or FTDI chipsets.  The cheaper ones use Prolific.
There are some notes in the DW4 wiki that can help you get better
speeds (+%30) with FTDI adapters, they seem to be set up for very high
speed by default, and need to be adjusted for 115.2k.  Prolific seem
to perform at the same speed as a real serial port without any
adjustment.
That's about all I know about usb -> serial adapters.
-Aaron



On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Jeremy Michea <jmichea at cogeco.ca> wrote:
> Hi again, another question on the same subject. Has anyone used one of these usb to serial ports to attach a drivewire cable to a coco? Just wondering how reliable these $2 devices can be before I bother ordering one and will drivewire work via these things versus a direct 9pin serial connection?
>
> Thanks
> Jeremy
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