On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 at 23:34:49, Roy wood wrote: (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tony Firshman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writesActually we have been down this road before. Laplink cables do not work. There is one wire wrong - can't recall which one though. Apart from that there are two different cable wirings sold as 'standard' serial connections The laplink cable from CPC failed as did the Lindy Electronics one when we used them at Byfleet two years or so ago remember Tony?On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 at 15:44:49, wrote: (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
If even the "experts" couldn't agree on the wiring of an Aurora port and cable, I see it as a pointless time wasting exercice even trying.
They are std PC style ports and if a ribbon cable (10 way DIL IDC one end and 9D IDC plug the other) is plugged onto Aurora the right way round (easy to do wrongly on Qubbesoft boards), then an off the shelf laplink cable can be used.
You then got a cable from Dilwyn and a couple of plugs from me and made one (which I still have) and that worked first time.I was not told what cable you were using.
I made up a cable with RX/TX and CTS/RTS crossed and straight through ground as per the 1988 QuaLsoft File Transfer wiring.
The cable wiring as described here:
http://www.oldfiles.org.uk/powerload/cable.htm
is exactly right.
That is the 'laplink' wiring I was referring to. One can ignore the DTR/DSR cabling as that does not exist on the QL/Aurora.
I should not have used the word 'laplink'. It is just that I have a branded laplink cable with 9D and 25D and the correct crossover wiring.
I had no idea that there were laplink cable variants.
What a b****r.
Tony
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