wmt029 Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 Thanks! I have tons of old floppies that have been stored in hard plastic cases and paper sleeves, I mostly want to copy some old basic programs that I wrote when I was a kid into .atr files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratwell Posted February 28, 2021 Author Share Posted February 28, 2021 (edited) Progress Update: Connecting Lotharek SIO-2-PC USB Rev2 my Mac (10.15.7 Catalina) 1. Download FTDI USB Serial driver for Mac https://ftdichip.com/drivers/vcp-drivers/ https://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP/MacOSX/FTDIUSBSerialDriver_v2_4_4.dmg 2. Install and allow access when prompted - Open System Preferences -> Security & Privacy - Unlock to make changes (bottom left then enter password) - Click Allow (see photo) 3. Plug SIO-2-PC adapter into Atari SIO port (but not Mac yet) 4. Reboot Mac (best to do it) 5. Plug SIO-2-PC USB cable into Mac (after reboot) 6. Verify the port name and verify connection in USB Device Tree - Apple Menu -> About This Mac - System Report... - Hardware -> USB Trying unplug and plug if not visible. Cmd-R to refresh device tree. 7. Download RespeQt R4 for Mac https://github.com/ebiguy/RespeQt/releases/tag/r4 https://github.com/ebiguy/RespeQt/releases/download/r4/RespeQt-r4-OSX.zip 8. Use RespeQt Tools Menu -> Options... Menu Item to configure for Lotharek SIO-2-PC USB REV2 https://lotharek.pl/productdetail.php?id=157 Port name: tty.usbserial-XXX (where XXX is serial number in device tree) Handshake method: CTS 9. Load disk image and cold start Atari with Option key and power switch. Lotharek SIO-2-PC has Red comms light and Green SIO activity light. Now that I've verified the SIO-2-PC connects and I can run disk images, I can work on the 1050-2-PC stage... Edited February 28, 2021 by ratwell 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratwell Posted March 27, 2021 Author Share Posted March 27, 2021 On 2/28/2021 at 3:41 PM, ratwell said: Lotharek SIO-2-PC has Red comms light and Green SIO activity light Correction: Green is RX (data), Red is TX (commands) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratwell Posted March 28, 2021 Author Share Posted March 28, 2021 (edited) Progress Update: I installed a Happy 1050 from 8bitclassics.com to speed up the reading of the floppies I'm going to archive in addition to reading the DD disks: https://www.8bitclassics.com/product/happy-1050-upgrade-for-atari-1050-disk-drive/ It was drop shipped from Steven J Tucker and included some cool Reboot trading cards from 1995. The instructions were very easy to follow and the only trouble I had was aligning the holes in the circuit board with the three pegs in the bottom of the case because the two white prongs at the side fight you a bit. The instructions make no mention of re-installing the RF shield: https://www.atarimax.com/happy/happy_install.pdf Back in the day, I had two Happy Enhancements from HCI and their instructions required re-installation of the cage: https://archive.org/details/Happy1050HardwareInstallationInstructions/page/n5/mode/2up?q=shield I checked the forums for heat issues and there doesn't appear to be any when re-installing the RF shield. It's quite a thrill to hear those sped up pokey beeps after so many years! Edited March 28, 2021 by ratwell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratwell Posted March 28, 2021 Author Share Posted March 28, 2021 (edited) I've been experimenting with A8 sector copiers in this thread and have been challenged by being both able to read and write at highspeed SIO rates: My objective is to create disk images as fast and as easily as possible (not including any copy protected many of which seem to be online already). @HiassofT has a nice suite of tools and one of them includes a command line utility called atarixfer: https://www.horus.com/~hias/atari/#atarisio I'm using Lotharek's 1050-2-PC/SIO2PC-USB... https://lotharek.pl/productdetail.php?id=157 NOTE: I'm using a USB based SIO2PC device and will be configuring the software this way. To get it working I followed the following steps. I'm doing all of this on Debian 10.4 (not the latest, should also work on 10.9) running under Parallel's Desktop on Mac OS Catalina (10.15.7). GETTING STARTED 1. Download AtariSIO into HOME directory: cd ~ wget https://www.horus.com/~hias/atari/atarisio/atarisio-201214.tar.gz gzip -d atarisio-201214.tar.gz tar -xvf atarisio-201214.tar cd ~/atarisio-201214 2. Install Debian Build System: su apt-get clean apt-get update apt-get upgrade -y apt-get dist-upgrade -y apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) make gcc dkms kpartx apt-get install build-essential libncurses5-dev zlib1g-dev apt-get install linux-headers-amd64 (optional) apt-get install libftdi1-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev Note: that last one is a must for 1050-2-PC mode! 3. Build AtariSIO toolset: make sudo make install DEFAULT_DEVICE=/dev/ttyUSB0 4. Update Permissions (if necessary): chmod +x /usr/local/bin/atarixfer chmod +x /usr/local/bin/atariserver 5. Build the 1050-2-PC Lotharek support: cd ./contrib/lotharek make sudo make install cd ../.. 6. Confirm Lotharek 10502PC/SIO2PC-USB device is connected: ls /dev/tty.USB* result: /dev/ttyUSB0 sudo lsusb -v | grep lotharek result: iManufacturer 1 www.lotharek.pl sudo usb-devices | grep lotharek result: S: Manufacturer=www.lotharek.pl See files at the end of this post for the full results from those last two inquiries: 7. Edit Configuration Files: pico atarisio-modprobe.conf # use first serial port old line: options atarisio port=/dev/ttyS0 new: options atarisio port=/dev/ttyUSB0 cd /etc/modprobe.d sudo cp ~/atarisio-201214/atarisio-modprobe.conf . cd /etc/udev/rules.d sudo cp ~/atarisio-201214/atarisio-udev.rules 90-atarisio.rules INSTALLATION COMPLETE Note: the UART based kernel driver is only for serial SIO2PC devices and not necessary to install for USB. If you want to use the kernel driver you can follow the rest of the installation instructions in the download but HARDWARE CONFIGURATION: The 1050 is directly connected to PC via 10502PC/SIO2PC-USB Rev 2 and my drive identifier switch is set to D2: and there is no Atari computer attached (or attached and turned on). Note: no other adapters or +5V on SIO pin 10 was needed with this version of the device. Additionally, my drive is made in Singapore (TANDON) and has HAPPY 1050 from Atarimax installed. USAGE Switching from SIO2PC to 10502PC mode: cd ~/atarisio-201214 sudo ./contrib/lotharek/lotharek-switch 1050 result: successfully switched to 1050-2-PC mode Possible errors: 1. unable to open 10502PC/SIO2PC-USB device: -3 (device not found) Cause: device not plugged in or trapped on Mac side of Parallel's Solution: reconnect and test with lsusb -v and usb-devices to ensure that Debian can see them. 2. unable to open 10502PC/SIO2PC-USB device: -4 (usb_open() failed) Cause: permissions error Solution: use sudo lotharek-switch 1050 instead of following the instructions in the atarisio-201214 package (this is be fixed in the next release). Copy a real floppy to .ATR file: Note: I'm using my 1050 as D2: so that I can booted from RespeQt as D1: most of the time so I've added -2 to as an argument (default is -1): /usr/local/bin/atarixfer -f /dev/ttyUSB0 -s 3 -2 -r ~/Documents/myfirstfloppy.atr atarixfer 0.30-201214 (c) 2002-2020 Matthias Reichl <hias@horus.com> checking highspeed capability detected ultra speed drive: pokey divisor 10 (52160 baud) possibly Happy 1050: enabling fast writes Happy command $48 (AUX=$20) succeeded get percom block ... OK [128 BytesPerSec, 1040 Sectors] enhanced density disk starting to read disk 1040 successfully created "/home/ratwell/Documents/myfirstfloppy.atr" from disk That's one done! Copying an ED floppy took exactly 61 seconds! (read and write) Thank you @HiassofT for this software: it is awesome and thank you also for maintaining it. There are some speed limitations mentioned in the README file which depend on your hardware: Using atarixfer ========= -s mode high speed: 0 = off, 1 = XF551/Warp, 2 = Ultra/Turbo, 3 = all Default is off. Happy Warp, XF551 and 1050 Turbo only work with the AtariSIO kernel driver. 1050 Turbo Mode requires a 16950 UART and the AtariSIO kernel driver. It may also work on FTDI USB serial cables if strict SIO timing is enabled. Ultra Speed mode with a Happy 1050 or Speedy requires a 16950 UART and the AtariSIO kernel driver, an FTDI USB serial cable or the on-board Raspberry Pi UART. The 10502Pc/SIO2PC-USB rev 2 is FTDI based and gives the nearly 3x SIO transfer speed. Writing the unix file of course is nearly instant. Help files: Edited March 28, 2021 by ratwell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratwell Posted March 28, 2021 Author Share Posted March 28, 2021 On 2/28/2021 at 3:41 PM, ratwell said: 7. Download RespeQt R4 for Mac https://github.com/ebiguy/RespeQt/releases/tag/r4 https://github.com/ebiguy/RespeQt/releases/download/r4/RespeQt-r4-OSX.zip I updated to the latest version: https://github.com/RespeQt/RespeQt/releases https://github.com/RespeQt/RespeQt/releases/download/r5.3/RespeQt-r5.3_Mac.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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