[Techtoolslist] Data I/O and Windows XP

[Jack Rubin]

Matt,

I'm _pretty sure_ that I was able to use PromLink under WinXP but on a system with a true serial port. USB-serial adapters are notoriously fussy and unreliable for many applications. I'll try to drag out my laptop and retest this weekend.

Jack

--- On Thu, 7/24/08, Matt Rossiter <matt at rossiters.com> wrote:
From: Matt Rossiter <matt at rossiters.com>
Subject: [Techtoolslist] Data I/O and Windows XP
To: "Technical Tools Mail List" <techtoolslist at flippers.com>
Date: Thursday, July 24, 2008, 11:58 AM

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.

I've also tried changing a few port settings including lowering or turning
off the buffers.
I'm just wondering if anyone else has been able to work around a similar
problem?  Up until now I've always used Windows98 and using an older
version of promlink but it would be nice to use WindowsXP if possible.

Thanks!

Matt
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