ADTPro help — #2

Post #2 by david__schmidt

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	Software
Post Date	Wed, 12 Jan 2011 - 03:19
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/adtpro-help.22061/

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I successfully got my IIe card to bootstrap from my IIci using the old version of Mac ADT. Unfortunately it just dies when it attempts to verify the disk format.

That was a message it used to give when the disk it was trying to read was unformatted. Can you INIT the disk first?

So I bought a USB to Serial adapter off eBay. [...] I found out it was a Prolific USB to Serial adapter.

OSX users have had a spotty history with Prolific drivers. Hopefully they've improved. You can see some of the stories in the ADTPro forum:

http://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/adtpro/index.php

Unfortunately when I attempt to bootstrap my IIe card, nothing happens. I tell ADTPro to send the ProDOS client, and nothing happens on the IIe side after I set it to listen for the client.

I'm missing some pieces of the story line, I think. You used MacADT to communicate between your LC and IIci machine with a printer cable (null modem). Then, you changed to a Prolific-based, USB-to-DE9 serial adapter. What does the cabling look like now? Is it a null modem too? Do you have the pinout?