[Coco] Drivewire 4 having trouble detecting my serial port

Fred D. Provoncha fredprov5 at usfamily.net
Thu May 17 00:55:55 EDT 2012


> One possibility is that DW isn't able to set the proper parameters on
> the port.  This can happen for a few reasons, rare but possible.  To
> see if this has happened, just finish the wizard without doing the
> test and then look in the server tab for errors.  There are actually
> some other things that would show up there, so a good place to look.
> Another possibility is that my test just isn't quite right, or your
> coco sends a value I have not seen before on power up.  In that case,
> it might work just fine despite failing the wizard's test.
> Worth a shot to just pretend it worked and insert a disk, do a DIR.

Thanks Aaron. I'm not quite there yet. I did what you suggested, and got 
some weird results. I tried clicking "Finish Without Test" and nothing 
appeared to happen. I switched to the Server tab and oddly, nothing was 
displayed there at all, no activity. I fired up NitrOS9 on my Coco and 
did a "dir /x0" and got a Read Error. I think I may be running into 
another, perhaps unrelated problem.

Fred Provoncha
Salt Lake City, UT



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