[Coco] usb to serial adaptors and drivewire

[Steven Hirsch]

On Sat, 28 Aug 2010, Aaron Wolfe wrote:

> 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.

I'm able to get reliable 460k Baud operation using a Prolific adapter on 
my x86_64 Ubuntu box.  Obviously the client is FPGA CoCo on an Altera DE-1 
board :-).

Steve


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