On Fri, 25 Dec 2009, 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.
The nice part is that the X9000 is the only radio you can't brick while programming... -- Kris Kirby, KE4AHR Disinformation Analyst
