- #USB BLASTER SOFTWARE SHOWING UP AS SERIAL CONVERTER HOW TO#
- #USB BLASTER SOFTWARE SHOWING UP AS SERIAL CONVERTER UPGRADE#
- #USB BLASTER SOFTWARE SHOWING UP AS SERIAL CONVERTER WINDOWS#
I’ve got a bunch of stuff going on in life which has definitely hampered my responsiveness but I didn’t forget about you reason why a serial port on the Dockstar is a good idea is so that you can get access to the bootloader and flash or TFTP in your own images for use. Hey Everyone, sorry for the long wait getting back to you all. It’s easier to do the modification on the cable first rather than do the Dockstar portion due to the fact that part of performing the Dockstar side of things will require testing to make sure it’s all working properly. If it does something wrong, move the lighter away and start blowing on it to cool it down. When in doubt, apply the hat quickly and watch the shrinkwrap closely.
If you leave the lighter in the same place for too long, the shrinkwrap will stop shrinking and will catch fire. Please note that if you have never worked with shrinkwrap, the important thing is to watch the fire and keep it moving. Be careful, do your research, check twice, solder once. You can not blame me or hold this site responsible (or the maintainers of this site) if you do something and blow up your Dockstar. It is critically important that you know what you’re doing. Now that you have all the components, it’s important to stop here for a sec and cover the legal mess.
#USB BLASTER SOFTWARE SHOWING UP AS SERIAL CONVERTER WINDOWS#
Note: It may be possible to use a windows computer for testing however my USB adapter only works in Linux. – A Linux machine with an available USB port. – Spudger (or Radio Shack soldering toolkit) (We’ll use one spare for making the holes in the case, but it’s always good to have extras just in case. – A couple of spares of the 4 pin header and the connector. – This will be mounted inside the Dockstar. – a matched connector for the 4 pin header. – The pins have to be long enough that they will go through the Dockstar case and into the matched connector securely. The CA-42 cable has a PL-2303 USB to 3.3v TTL serial adapter in it which provides the required 3.3v TTL and gives an easy to use connector for plugging it into your host PC. interfacing it to a standard +12V/-12V serial port will damage your Dockstar. This is required as the dockstar’s serial port voltages are at a 3.3V TTL. – This is most commonly sold as a Nokia cable through Amazon and can usually be had for a few bucks. In order to pull this off, you will need the following items: The resulting connection port would still be cleanly presented and would not stick out like a sore thumb. An additional advantage to the pin-row setup is that the connection would be temporary and can be easily removed. The advantages to a pin-row set up is that there are only as many holes as are needed to establish connection and the connector size is significantly smaller than would be a standard DB-9 connector. After much deliberation, I decided that a pin-row setup would be ideal instead of some other outward-facing connector. No massive amount of connectors aside from Power and Ethernet, and with little room to begin with, I don’t want to have a cable hanging out of the box just to have access to the serial port. The Dockstar’s aesthetic elegance is in the fact that it’s so simple. If I decide to embed the device and something goes wrong, I’ll have to have access to the serial port in order to debug it.īut, simply having access to the serial port is not enough. This is hardly an ideal solution, and who knows what I’ll be doing with the device in the future. The issue is that they’re not very easy to get to without having to disassemble the device each and every time you need to do a recovery on it. The Seagate Dockstar has a serial port available via three of the pins on the header at the front of the PCB. Read on for my method of adding a serial port to the Dockstar without affecting the look of the device.
#USB BLASTER SOFTWARE SHOWING UP AS SERIAL CONVERTER HOW TO#
Just about all of the sites will describe the pins needed to make the connection, however none of them detail how to do it very clearly and none of them address the issue of aesthetics.
#USB BLASTER SOFTWARE SHOWING UP AS SERIAL CONVERTER UPGRADE#
There are two ways to perform this upgrade however in order to capture syslog output and to be able to get to the bootloader, a serial port is required. Once I saw the article at Hackaday that covers exactly how to replace the OS, I knew I had to do it for myself. I did a lot of research in regards to the capabilities of the Dockstar, including being able to push a customized Linux OS on the device. Ok, so not long after I published the article on the hardware teardown of the Seagate Dockstar, I couldn’t help myself so I started working on things to do with this device.
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