[Techtoolslist] Data I/O and Windows XP

[Matt Rossiter]

Actually, I take that back.  I needed to re-setup some things in Promlink. 
But now it's just doing the same thing as it was before.

The questions still stands about enabling flow control.  :)

Thanks

Matt

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:19:40 -0700, Matt Rossiter <matt at rossiters.com>
wrote:

> Thanks Mike!

> 

> Let me just confirm a couple of things if you don't mind.

> 

> 1) I'm using the same cable/null modem that works when I'm using

Windows98

> - Is that fine?

> 2) On my computer settings I have the serial port configured as Com1,

> 9600,

> 8, none, 1, and hardware flow control enabled. - does that sound good? 

My

> other option for flow control is XON/XOFF.

> 3) In the promlink configuration I have the programmer port set to Com1,

> 9600, 8, none, and 1.  There's no option to set flow control.  Is there a

> way to set that in Promlink?

> 

> I tried the new PL.SET file but now it complains about Port1 and Port2. 

I

> can't communicate with the programmer at all.  Just wondering if I'm

> missing something.

> 

> Thanks for all the help.

> 

> Matt

> 

>  

>>> On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:40:37 +0100, Mike Coates <mike at the-coates.com>

>>> wrote:

>>>> I've used promlink on XP without problem (but then I patched it!)

>>>>

>>>> If you have no flow control, you are losing data during the transfer -

> 

>>>> simple commands are only a single byte, but file transfer either way

> is

>> 

>>>> going to send large amounts of info.

>>>>

>>>> you also say you are using com1, but the error indicates that it's 

>>>> trying to use com2 initially - I've attached my config file, def. com1

>> - 

>>>> but with flow control enabled - has worked for me using a cable made

> to

>> 

>>>> the specs on the leopardcats web page.

>>>>

>>>>

>>>>

>>>> Matt Rossiter wrote:

>>>>> Hello, 

>>>>>

>>>>> I'm hooking up a laptop to a Data I/O UniPak 2B Eprom Programmer and

>>>>> connected through a USB to Serial adapter made by Airlink.  I'm using

>>>>> Promlink 6.10, which is the patched version from MikesArcade.com. 

>>>>>

>>>>> http://mikesarcade.com/arcade/promlink.html

>>>>>

>>>>> My Settings are Com1, 9600 Baud, Parity None, Data Bits 8, Stop Bits

> 1

>>>> and

>>>>> of course flow control is off.  I/O Format is current set to Absolute

>>>>> Binary. 

>>>>>

>>>>> I've read some of the threads before on this and I seem to be running

>>>> into

>>>>> a similar problem regarding trying to send and receive eprom data.  I

>>>> can

>>>>> do things such as blank checks, selecting devices, reading eproms,

>> etc.

>>>>>

>>>>> 1)  First of all, when I initially start up Promlink, I always get

>> this

>>>>> message "16 Bit MS-DOS Subsystem - pl.exe The system cannot open Com2

>>>> port

>>>>> requested by the application.  Choose 'Close' to terminate the

>>>> application.

>>>>>

>>>>> Rather than choosing 'Close' I click 'Ignore' and get in.

>>>>>

>>>>> 2) When I read eproms, I can do so and get a sumcheck, but if I save

>>>> them

>>>>> to a file I can't identify the file using romident.

>>>>>

>>>>> 3) When I try to send a file to the programmer I will see a progress

>> bar

>>>>> quickly go to 100% and it will wait indefinitely with a "Waiting for

>>>>> programmer response..." message.

>>> 

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