Thanks Tom. I've previously looked at the setup screen accessible during boot. I do believe that cache is turned ON but on my particular computer have not discovered a way to turn it off in setup. I also did not find a "gear shift" for speed.
I'll keep looking or find a utility to handle it. Thanks -mike/w5jr --- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, Thomas Oliver <tsoli...@...> wrote: > > When you first turn the computer on it will usualy say something like > press F5 for boot screen, do it and go in and see if there is a setting > for slower processor speed. > Select slow speed and also disable the cache . > > I have to do these two steps with my Toshiba Satalite and it works fine > on my x9000. Moslo never worked for me. (long time ago) > > tom > > > Mike/W5JR wrote: > > Oh, great wizards. I have an aging, fragile 386sx laptop that has > > faithfully programmed my X9000 radio for years. I also have a Compaq LTE P1 > > 120 that I program all of my other Moto radios with successfully except for > > the X9000. On the Compaq, I have tried booting to real DOS6.22 from a > > floppy (Windows 98SE DOS gives same problem). Using moslo, the X9000 > > program launches just fine but I am unable to read the radio. I receive the > > dreaded "Serial Bus Failure. Power Fault." message. > > > > I can only guess that the computer speed still hoses the serial port > > despite using moslo to dial back the computer. I have read through all of > > the repeater-builder and Blenderman sites on the issue. > > > > Has anyone made the X9000 program work on a P1? If not, I guess I'm going > > garage sale shopping. > > > > Thanks > > > > Mike/W5JR
