bad cable or computer to fast?

[gopher]

i got a 2 system saber radio that dont want to communicate with the rss
im using R03.00.2 and the computer is a 500mhz celeron
the com test shows the radio CON version and when i goto read the codeplug the radio display says 'chan 1' and pauses and i get the error
'serial bus communications error could not acquire busy line turn radio off then on to try again'

what do you guys think, computer to fast or is my piece of :o KAWA cable is no good ?
im loooking into getting a old computer but they are harder to locate than i thought

[gopher]

i turned off all the cpu cache and underclocked the thing way down
getting a different error now
'serial bus communication error
no response after transmit
turn radio off then on to try again'


any ideas??

[Jim202]

You are probably still too fast for the radio. Those radios are prone to programming errors unless you are using
a very slow computer. The slower the better. I have 2 old clunkers that I keep just for a couple of the old
radios still around. One is a 33 MHz and the other is a 100 MHz. One or the other always gets the job done.

Jim

i turned off all the cpu cache and underclocked the thing way down
getting a different error now
'serial bus communication error
no response after transmit
turn radio off then on to try again'


any ideas??

[wavetar]

Not sure what the latest version of the Systems Saber RSS is number-wise, but according to Motorola's Pentium Compatibility matrix, RVN-4051F should work. You likely have an earlier version.

[gopher]

got it working finally
my friend loaned me a 486 25mhz
its slow but it works!

is there a way to design a codeplug file in the windows gui then just load it with the old dos rss?

[Slash-2CPU]

Nope. Saber RSS needs pure DOS. I use a 386 at 20MHz, and underclock it to 10MHz to be sure. RSS screens take about 0.2 seconds to load instead of 0.001 seconds, but I have yet to see a serial data error.

[wavetar]

got it working finally
my friend loaned me a 486 25mhz
its slow but it works!

is there a way to design a codeplug file in the windows gui then just load it with the old dos rss?

Actually, yes. The issue with Windows is the read/write to the radio, not the actual running of the RSS (99% of the time, anyway). Once you've read the codeplug, you can take that codeplug to any Windows computer via floppy disk or whatever, and build it with the RSS within a DOS window or Command Prompt. Then transfer it back to the old computer to write the finalized codeplug back to the radio.