CBM4WIN Printer Port Problem
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From: Tom Lake on 31 Jan 2007 08:26 > Payton Byrd wrote: > >> "Tom Lake" <tlake(a)twcny.rr.com> wrote in message >> news:45beb505$0$5234$4c368faf(a)roadrunner.com... > >>> \\.\opencbm0: The system cannot find the file specified. > > It seems the installation of cbm4win did not work, or you never tried to > do it (instcbm). I did try it but when you run a command in a CMD prompt, the output doesn't go to your open window. Another window flashes on the screen with your output then disappears. I had no way of knowing if my commands were working or not! I tried piping through the MORE filter and creating a batch file with a PAUSE in it. Neither worked. Tom Lake
From: Wolfgang Moser on 31 Jan 2007 16:21 Hi Spiro, Spiro Trikaliotis schrieb: > Do you donate me a CMD HD in order to be able to fix it? ;) you are a little bit crazy, aren't you? Well, as I can see, you already got it... along with some work ;-) Hehe, ;-) I don't need to mention that /other/ donation, do I... Womo
From: KilrPilr on 31 Jan 2007 17:05 Hey Womo. Are you saying Spiro will pull a maurice and I can kiss my CMD hd goodbye? or that he will not get anything done (another maurice like activity) ? Spiro you wont pull a maurice on me will you? Please say it isnt so! ;) "Wolfgang Moser" <wn0612(a)d81.de.invalid> wrote in message news:epr195$5ko$1(a)vs5413.trikaliotis.net... > Hi Spiro, > > Spiro Trikaliotis schrieb: >> Do you donate me a CMD HD in order to be able to fix it? ;) > > you are a little bit crazy, aren't you? > > Well, as I can see, you already got it... > along with some work ;-) > > Hehe, ;-) I don't need to mention that /other/ > donation, do I... > > > > Womo
From: Wolfgang Moser on 1 Feb 2007 15:04 Hello Leo, hi Spiro, KilrPilr schrieb: > Hey Womo. > Are you saying Spiro will pull a maurice and I can kiss my CMD hd goodbye? > or that he will not get anything done (another maurice like activity) ? > > Spiro you wont pull a maurice on me will you? Please say it isnt so! ;) oh my god, there you got me wrong. It was in no way my intention to say that Spiro would not do improve support for CMD's devices. It is more that I know that he is a very busy man, overloaded with work. In such a situation it could be considered not the best behaviour to call for more work to do. But he did, maybe because he didn't expect that someone would _really_ give away his expensive CMD device for some weeks or months. I did lend Spiro two different PCI LPT port cards to help him improving support for such PCI LPT cards. Unfortunately there is some serious issue with such PCI LPT port cards in not generating the needed IRQ, so that OpenCBM is not able to work with these, but mainboard integrated LPT ports only. And Spiro and I already did invest 200 hours, if not more in searching for a solution and trying these out (implementing, testing, making educated guesses about the failure reason, ...), with not having had the luck to find a solution. That's why I said that it would be not a good idea to mention that /other/ donation. It _did_ already cost toooo much work and still isn't fixed yet, nor do we have got an idea how a solution could be done. Currently the workload is at my side, I would have to some tests with unixoide systems, if IRQs from PCI LPT port cards can be handled with cbm4linux there. If this does work, we would know that it would be no hardware issue, but either an OS, driver, or otherwise software related thing. Leo, are you sure that CMD devices are not supported by OpenCBM currently? Did you play with the most basic commands of cbmctrl yet? I mean, did you try out to read some blocks from the CMD the crude hard way, to only see, if something can be transferred. Something like: cbmctrl status 10 cbmctrl command 10 "any well known CMD disk drive command" cbmctrl lock cbmctrl open 10 2 "MyFile" cbmctrl talk cbmctrl read "ToMyLocalFile.bin" cbmctrl untalk cbmctrl close cbmctrl unlock If such basics do work, then there is nothing more to do than writing some shell scripts that send commands to the drive (changing subdirectories), listing the files, filling that into a foreach loop and transferring each single file with basic IEC transfers. All the higher level transfer tools will not work with CMD hardware in most cases _by_design_. These were made for the Commodore 1541 floppy disk drive and its compatibles (1540, 1570, 1571) to deliver mainstream usability to the masses with a minimum effort. That's one of the principles, where OpenSource is well working at from scratch. Womo
From: Tom Lake on 1 Feb 2007 17:41
> I did lend Spiro two different PCI LPT port cards to > help him improving support for such PCI LPT cards. > Unfortunately there is some serious issue with such > PCI LPT port cards in not generating the needed IRQ, > so that OpenCBM is not able to work with these, but > mainboard integrated LPT ports only. So it won't work with a USB to Parallel adapter either? More and more new computers are omitting the actual parallel port. I hope when I buy a new computer, I won't have to leave CBM4WIN behind! Tom Lake |