Older USB to Serial Adapter questions

May 18, 2007, 09:38 AM #1
jdebuhr Junior Member Join: May 2007 Posts: 1	Older USB to Serial Adapter questions I did a search and found a bunch of USB to Serial posts but none have the same issue I am having. I am a newbie MAC user, I bought my first MAC last month (MBP 15) it replaces an older Dell Laptop. I used Transporter and created a HDD image of my dell XP Pro) and ported it to my MAC. I am running Parallels build 3188. I need the XP image for my automotive ALDL datalogging software. the cable I have is an older USB to Serial, when I plug it in with OS X running it does nto seem to find it. with autoconnect on and Parallels VM running XP, XP finds it and connects is ( I have it set as COM1). once I try launching my Datalogger after a few seconds I get an XP BSOD, (VM is Set to auto off apparently so I could not read the message) so I will try again, but how do I turn auto on/off feature off? Now my main question is with using a USB to serial Adapter in XP should it work okay or will I have issues? baud rate is 8196 (yeah I know non-standard) but worked well on my old Dell. what other options do I have? I have VISTA on a bootcamp partition and it does nto work when booted that way. I would really like to go through the VM if I can

May 18, 2007, 09:38 AM

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Older USB to Serial Adapter questions

I did a search and found a bunch of USB to Serial posts but none have the same issue I am having.

I am a newbie MAC user, I bought my first MAC last month (MBP 15) it replaces an older Dell Laptop. I used Transporter and created a HDD image of my dell XP Pro) and ported it to my MAC. I am running Parallels build 3188. I need the XP image for my automotive ALDL datalogging software. the cable I have is an older USB to Serial, when I plug it in with OS X running it does nto seem to find it. with autoconnect on and Parallels VM running XP, XP finds it and connects is ( I have it set as COM1). once I try launching my Datalogger after a few seconds I get an XP BSOD, (VM is Set to auto off apparently so I could not read the message) so I will try again, but how do I turn auto on/off feature off?

Now my main question is with using a USB to serial Adapter in XP should it work okay or will I have issues? baud rate is 8196 (yeah I know non-standard) but worked well on my old Dell.

what other options do I have? I have VISTA on a bootcamp partition and it does nto work when booted that way. I would really like to go through the VM if I can

May 18, 2007, 10:02 AM #2
rmanley Junior Member Join: Jul 2006 Posts: 19	USB HC emulation problems affecting USBD on XP I believe there is a problem with the USB HC emulation which can cause this on application restart. I have found the same issue with multiple WHQL'd drivers on certain hardware. Can Parallels tech support provide any insight on updates to the emulation code being developed?

May 18, 2007, 01:12 PM #3
Stevamundo Senior Member Join: Sep 2006 Posts: 417	http://www.pcloft.com/usbtoseinrsc.html I have this connected to my XP speakerphone modem. It works great. Maybe it would work for you too?

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