Ht600 programming errors

[Motouser16]

Hello forum,

I recently obtained a couple of ht600's and I am attemptig to reprogram them but I am having some issues..

I've tried several versions of RSS including 03.02.02 and 02.01.01
I've gotten the same error messages with all software versions. Alsoive tried running the software on a few different pc's, and platforms, one running only msdos 6.22, msdos 5.0, windows 95 DOS, VMWARE and dosbox. On all platforms I got the same errors..

I am using a ribless programming cable Whig seems to be well manufactred.

I get the following errors:

with everything connected and powered up properly:
SERIAL BUS ACCESS ERROR #005

with the radio off, battery connected on the ribless cord:
SERIAL BUS ACCESS ERROR #3

with the radio off and the ribless battery disconnected:
SERIAL BUS ACCESS #11

I know that all should be powered up for programming, but I wanted to show that the cable /radio/computer must be communicating somehow since the errors change with he different conditions.

Any ideas?

Note: with dosbox, as I slowed the ips down the error #005 changed to error #001.
does anyone know what these errors mean? I can't find a list anywhere online


Thanks all!

[Al]

You didn't say what speed the processors in the various PCs you're trying to use is. Generally, with all but the very last version of the RSS, you need a processor speed of no more than 16 Mhz, and preferably an old 286 or 386 Intel processor. The last version of the RSS accomodated higher processor speeds because M introduced a second timing loop in the software to separate i/o timing from RSS timing, but I don't remember the version number offhand.
Ribless cables were unheard of when the RSS you're trying to use was written. If you use an M compatible RIB and a standard(non RIBless) cable along with a suitable processor speed for the RSS version you should have no problem.

[Motouser16]

Thanks for your reply,

the slowest computer I tried it on was a Sony vail laptop pentium III 500mhz running ms-dos 6.22.

I am really hoping that this is the problem as a friend of mine has an old 386 in his attic he is going to give me later today for further experimentation. I understand that the ribless cable is newer from the radio, but I imaging that the circutry is still comparable. If the old pc dosent work, I'll have to spend the extra $$ and buy the rib and the seperate cable.

I'll post me results from the old 386 when I give it a try..

[kcbooboo]

Definitely cpu-speed dependent. I had to use a 486-25 to make mine run. I did however run across a fairly new version that ran on my Pentium 100 - sort of. I could program it, but when I tried to set the deviation level, the radio would stay in transmit mode and not come out of it unless I turned the radio off. I went back to my 486-25 and it worked a lot better.

I've only used non-Motorola RIBs and they both worked fine. I've never tried any RIB-less cables.

And it should go without saying that this machine was running MS-DOS 6.22.

Bob M.

[MTS2000des]

The RIBless cables are also dependent on what UART is connected. The latest version of HT600 RSS WILL run just fine on a Pentium class CPU, I've had no issues running it on a Toshiba Dual Core 3400 Tecra M5 laptop with 2GB of RAM- running REAL MS-DOS as a boot source and the RSS located on a small FAT32 partition on the HDD. Using a real RLN4008E and Genesis cables work just fine. You may have to try a different PC with your cable to get it to work.

[Motouser16]

Hey all,

well, I got an older pc from a freind today. He said it was a 386, but he was mistaken and when I picked it up I was a little dissapointed to see that it was a celeron 333. However after giving it a go with the celeron and msdos 622 it worked like a charm!

Thanks for all of your help!