Are there drivers in old Mac systems (I have no idea about old MacOSs)? What could I try to copy or change?
#Classic ftp for mac serial serial
So, do you guys have any idea what I could try or what the problem might be? Since the whole serial connection works, I think I'm very close to solving the problem. We don't have the original software anymore, but I copied it from the old mac to SheepShaver. I also tried to intercept traffic, but to no avail. If I change the baud rate in the host system, it gets changed back if I want to connect through the software, so something seems to be happening. However, the device software just won't connect, giving me the error messages "0" and "-28", printer/modem port could not be opened (for the cu device) or just freezes (using the tty device). I use ZTerm to send AT commands from within the client system and the modem responds (via the cu-device) I manged to set up both of the converters to control an old RS-232 modem. One is using a Prolific chip, the other one is a Belkin F5U103, with the major advantage of having the DIN-8 port used by the macs. I've connected two kinds of RS-232 to USB converters. I also test on the Tiger system in parallel. I'm testing on a Snow Leopard system, but the final system controlling the device for the next couple of years would run Tiger. So I've got SheepShaver running MacOS 8.5 and 9.0.4 on a MacOS X host. The software used to control the scanner just works on classic Mac environments and the only contemporary version of this software would run on Windows and costs a lot. One possibility would be to just use ftp or something like that, but we'd like to use a new computer to control the device so we can save space and have redundancy in case the old mac would have a hardware failure. The Mac is getting old, and can't access our smb servers anymore. It works perfectly fine with the old computer. The device has handshakes toggled off and works with 9600 baud. The device is connected to either the modem or the printer port and has a DB-25 RS-232C connector on the device side. We've got an old PowerPC running MacOS 8.5.1 in the lab which is used to control a device (a 96-well-plate-reading spectrophotometer). It helped me with several questions, but now I'm at a point I can't answer by looking at older posts so I'd like to ask directly. As I haven't posted here before: I'm Remo, and I already like your forum a lot.
0 kommentar(er)
