[Coco] XBee radios and serial paks

[Roger Taylor]

Brian,

Make sure the disk images are in header-less, direct sector 
format.  The size of the .dsk image will be (tracks * 4608).



At 05:11 PM 6/19/2010, you wrote:
>Has anybody tried other devices with Roger's serial/Bluetooth paks?
>
>I'm trying two XBee radios instead of B/T, and while I've had some success,
>I've also ran smack into a wall.
>
>I'm using CoCoNet 1.26 with a DrivePak and a SerialPak - everything about
>the DrivePak and SIO connections work fine. Just have issues with the 6551
>side of things.
>
>I've got the XBee's set for 115,200, 8, N, 1 (I tried what I thought was the
>default of 9600 baud for the SerialPak, but, there was no connection at all
>to the PC).
>
>When I start CoCoNet Server on the PC, we're set at COM7, with the above
>settings. When I power up the CoCo, CoCoNet goes thru the process of
>checking what devices are present, and detects the 6551 and boots as
>expected.
>
>On the PC server, I get the following:
>
>*6/19/2010 5:52:46 PM - Opening COM7,115200,8,None,1,None*
>*6/19/2010 5:52:46 PM - Listening for calls on TCP Port 6809*
>*6/19/2010 5:52:53 PM - !STATUS*
>*Server Is Running*
>
>On the CoCo, when I enter the command: DRIVE 1,@"C:\COCOFILES\TRIBALLS.DSK"
>CoCoNet Server responds with:
>
>*6/19/2010 6:00:37 PM - @DRIVE::1::C:\COCOFILES\TRIBALLS.DSK*
>*6/19/2010 6:00:37 PM - Mounted PC-hosted virtual disk:
>C:\COCOFILES\TRIBALLS.DSK*
>*
>*
>Here's where the problems come in - entering a DIR command, gets me an ?IO
>ERROR on the CoCo, and CoCoNet Server gives:
>
>*6/19/2010 6:03:42 PM - !DSKI$ 1 17 2*
>*
>*
>And it does this with any dusk image I try to mount. I can't help but think
>there is something simple I'm overlooking here. Anybody have any ideas?
>
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