Icky - Progress

[exxos]

It must be quite frustrating seeing the progress and not having your hands on one. I guess you have to apply all the fixes once you get it.

Yeah :( I mean I could have tried the diagrom already if I had my board.. not easy to "debug remotely" .. Saying that you guys have made huge progress and we got a lot sorted over this past week. Hopefully this issue will be the last and we can start getting on with running GB6 and soak testing etc.

[PhilC]

If you can hook up serial, then might be worth seeing if that works with the diagnostic cart.. worth a try I guess... No saying it will be much use, but at least it will test the rs232..

Hooked up my STF to seial using an FTDI adaptor and I am getting an out put but its' nothing meaningful.

Am I Correct its 8 N 1 and 9600?

[exxos]

Hooked up my STF to seial using an FTDI adaptor and I am getting an out put but its' nothing meaningful.

Am I Correct its 8 N 1 and 9600?

I think so yes.. The garbage output could just be what the cart is sending out.

[PaulJ]

Icky, look at the serial on the scope and see if the bit width is 9600 baud,

[Icky]

Got there in the end - gone are the days when I had loads of serial cables lying around.

We have some more messages via serial so we know that the serial port works on the STF

So what we get is a message before the E7 one:

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I6 Testing Bus Error handling
No (I6) error

E7 Spurious Interrupt
E7 Spurious Interrupt

[Icky]

Hooked up my STF to seial using an FTDI adaptor and I am getting an out put but its' nothing meaningful.

Am I Correct its 8 N 1 and 9600?

I think so yes.. The garbage output could just be what the cart is sending out.

These are the settings on my terminal - 9600 8-N-1 / CTS / DTR

[rpineau]

so I6 (IPL 6) is the MFP. "No (I6) error" ..looks like MFP interrupt handler are ok.

[PhilC]

And looks like my serial is not working, lol.

[Icky]

And looks like my serial is not working, lol.

It took me a couple of attempts to get the cable sorted out from STF 25 pin to my USB Serial 25 pin cable.

[PhilC]

Please could you show me the pinout you used?

It might be incompatible with my FTDI guess, so can try a usb-serial later on.