Originally Posted by Ben Colby I've used the same cable you are using and it's the only one that has brought programs into the PC while using Hardware Handshaking, but like I said it won't send them back to Brother. |
But downloading would already be a start. At this moment I can't get anything from or to the machine.
How high of a baud rate can you set at the control? |
My machine goes from 300 baud up to 19200 baud.
I have BroComm which was written for Brother machines, but it's only baud setting is 19,600. My machine doesn't go up that high, but if yours does I'll gladly send the software to you. |
I assume you meant 19200 (19600 isn't an existing baudrate as far as I know). My machine supports this setting, so I'm very interested in your BroComm software. I'm not sure how big the program is, but if it's below 5MB you can mail it to me at
mahi@pandora.be (my ISP doesn't allow larger attachments). If it's larger, I can set up an FTP server. Thanks in advance!
The TCeditor software I'm using supports all baud rates (but doesn't do squat on any setting). Sadly it requires a hardware dongle on the parallel port. I can send the software to you but you won't be able to use it without the dongle.
I have a cable layout for hardware handshaking that another Brother user sent me for a 9 pin connector on the computer and a 25 pin at the control |
I'm gonna try that next week. Btw, on the last line of the pin layout you wrote 1-4 8-20... A bridge over 1 and 4, and a bridge over 8 and 20 on the other connector. But should there also be a connection between 1-4 and 8-20?
Can you give me a list of the default settings from the Brother manual?
I'm curious if they match my settings. |
User Parameter 3 (Communication):
SELECT PORT
0: PORT A
1: PORT B
default 0
CONNECTED TO
0: PTP/PTR
1: COMPUTER
default 0 (I set this to 1 obviously)
COMP COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL (MASTER)
0: TYPE1
1: TYPE2
default 0
BAUD RATE
0: 300
1: 600
2: 1200
3: 2400
4: 4800
5: 9600
6: 19200
default 5
PARITY
0: NONE
1: ODD
2: EVEN
default 0
STOP BIT
0: 1 BIT
1: 1.5 BIT
2: 2BIT
default 0
CHARACTER LENGTH
0: 7 BIT
1: 8BIT
default 0
REPONSE START TIME
0-999 seconds
default 60
COMMUNICATION
0: LINE
1: CODE1
2: CODE2
default 0
DC1CODE
0-255
default 17
DC2CODE
0-255
default 18
DC3CODE
0-255
default 147
DC4CODE
0-255
default 20
DR SIGNAL CHECK
0: NO
1: YES
default 1
COMMUNICATION END DC3 CODE
0: NO
1: YES
default 0
OUTPUT TAPE FEED
0: NO
1: YES
default 1
RESET (SLAVE)
0: NO
1: YES
default 1
RESET RECOVERY TIME
0-99 seconds
default 1
DATA OVER WRITE (SLAVE)
0: NO
1: YES
default 0
REMOTE OPERATION
0: INVALID
1: VALID
default 0
REMOTE PROTOCOL CHECKSUM
0: NO
1: YES
default 0