Host Timeout connecting //c to Win 7 64-bit

[Joseph Giliberti]

Greetings!

I've got a //c setup with a second external drive, connected to my Windows 7 64-bit laptop via the USB-to-Serial cable you sell. When I open ADTPro, it acknowledges that it is connected to the //c. I selected the directory for the application to look in for the DSK image and made sure the baud rate matched up. I then type in the filename into the //c (in this case, "iicsysu.dsk"). It displays "waiting for host reply" and then "host timeout."
What am I doing wrong here?

Thanks!
Joe Giliberti

[David Schmidt]

Hi, Joe -

The "acknowledgement" isn't really acknowledging anything... it really just means the communications is ready on the host end. When you plug in your USB cable to your PC, you need to know for sure which COM port it attaches itself as, and make sure to configure the server to use that one. The easy way to tell that is to unplug the USB cable from the PC, start up ADTPro server, and then look at the available COM ports (File->Serial Configuration, Ports dropdown). Then, plug in your USB adapter, and re-open the Serial Configuration's Ports dropdown, and see which COM port was added. That's the one you want to use.

Then, on the //c, ensure you're using the left-most (as you're looking at the back of the machine) DIN5 port to plug in the null modem:
http://adtpro.com/images/iicmodemport.jpg

• David

[David Schmidt]

Also - just saw your exchange over on cctech, and got some more background. One more thing to check: java -version. What does it report?