ADTPro, IIgs and SSC

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ADTPro, IIgs and SSC

So, I'll set the stage:

I have a IIgs that I wanted to push floppies to from my MacBook. I have a db9-db25 straight through serial cable. I can connect said cable to my mac via a usb-serial adapter. It has worked previously with my IIe. I placed a SSC in the IIgs in slot 2, set the control panel to "your card" and rebooted into GS/OS. I quit GS/OS going into BASIC, typing IN#2, Control-A, 14B. I pushed ADTPro to the IIgs, IIgs responded with code on the screen scrolling. ADTPro started just fine, but I couldn't select any option as the IIgs keyboard had quit working. I also tried booting into ProDOS via a floppy and it responded the same way. Kind of out of the norm set up, but I thought it would work much the same way that the IIe did. I suppose throwing the ADB keyboard in the mix might have botched things up.

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Re: ADTPro, IIgs and SSC

I'm using ADTPro on a IIGS and having no problems. Like you I originally used it with a SSC until I got a cable from David Schmidt to hook to the serial port on the GS. Sorry I can't give you any clue as to the problem but I thought I'd at least let you know it will work.

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Re: ADTPro, IIgs and SSC

Guess I will have to make a din8 to db9 serial cable :bigsmile:

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Re: ADTPro, IIgs and SSC

I have a IIgs that I wanted to push floppies to from my MacBook. I have a db9-db25 straight through serial cable. I can connect said cable to my mac via a usb-serial adapter. It has worked previously with my IIe. I placed a SSC in the IIgs in slot 2, set the control panel to "your card" and rebooted into GS/OS.

With the straight-through serial cable, make sure the jumper block is pointing down like this:
http://adtpro.sourceforge.net/images/ss1.jpg

I quit GS/OS going into BASIC

You don't want to do that... you want to just boot into ProDOS with the 8 key when you first turn the machine on.

I pushed ADTPro to the IIgs, IIgs responded with code on the screen scrolling. ADTPro started just fine, but I couldn't select any option as the IIgs keyboard had quit working. I also tried booting into ProDOS via a floppy and it responded the same way.

This is strange. Something is definitely wrong.

Kind of out of the norm set up, but I thought it would work much the same way that the IIe did.

It's not out of the norm - that's how I started when I wrote the IIgs support for ADTPro. I started with a SSC to transfer the code over to the IIgs to test the native serial port. It works fine that both ways. And for an SSC... it does work exactly the same way the IIe does. Make sure you are selecting "SSC SLOT 2" in ADTPro rather than the IIgs serial port. ADTPro will try to use the native port by default, unless you tell it otherwise.

I suppose throwing the ADB keyboard in the mix might have botched things up.

Nope, that's not the isseue.

Guess I will have to make a din8 to db9 serial cable :bigsmile:

Yes, you definitely want to do that. Use the serial port the way it's intended.

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Re: ADTPro, IIgs and SSC

Thanks David! Great tip for booting into ProDOS, didn't know you could do that. I got out one of my IIe's to push some disks to, but I will use your suggestions for the IIgs.

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Re: ADTPro, IIgs and SSC

If I build a cable for this, are these pinouts correct?

Mini Din 8 to DB 9 Cable

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Re: ADTPro, IIgs and SSC

Look no further than the ADTPro page...
http://adtpro.sourceforge.net/connectionsserial.html#MiniDIN8

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Re: ADTPro, IIgs and SSC

Sweeeeet! Thanks again! So, I tried again using your suggestion of booting into ProDOS, and it worked like a charm. ADTPro also see's my Focus Drive CF card partitions. Very cool!

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