S4 comms through USB<>RS232 interface

[Guest]

Has anyone tried using an S4 connected to a PC through a USB to RS232 interface? Does it work?

james

[Guest]

Guys,

No it does not work, it only works for one emulation then you have to re-boot the pc for the second one, i understand that Dataman are writing drivers for this.

[Guest]

Im not sure the drivers for this will ever be written as dataman have scooted round this issue for a while now and will not give a direct answer, forces me to buy a new pc, thanks.

[Guest]

I can connect to the S4 using a Targus USB converter and Windows XP. It works fine with our own homebrew programming s/w, but the S4 Windows app does not recognise the Com port at all (Com1)
Error message "Cannot connect to specified port - COM1"

Plenty of other apps work out of this port!
I suspect that the S4 app uses an old com port API call which is no longer supported in Windows or messes directly with the registry.

Is Dataman going to issue a patch or newer "s4drv32"?

Regards,

Antony P. Norris

[Dataman (Neil Parker)]

Antony

Please download the latest S4 driver software from our website, it has been rewritten in C++ to work with Windows XP and 2000.

I hope this solves your problem.

Neil

[Guest]

Thanks Neil,
My USB - S4 setup is working well now.

A little observation on the new "driver". If you fill the main window up (easily done while looking for a Prom type) - no further commands work or display. You can't drag the scroll bar back up and the only way out is to shut down the driver and start again.

Regards

Antony P. Norris