I just installed Kyle Owen's Serial Disk Server on my 8/A (at high speed via an Omni-USB card I got from Philipp Hachtmann). There was a bit of a learning curve for me since I've never used any *nix programs before, or heard of Cygwin... But Kyle was very helpful, exchanging several emails this afternoon and it only took me a couple of hours to get everything figured out, up and running. It even comes with the indispensable diagpack2.rk05 OS/8 image already embedded in the .zip file, and it's now running on the real hardware. Haven't tried uploading anything yet but I'm sure that will work too! NOW maybe I can get my RL02 controller card (and the rest of the hardware, the power supply has started glitching again) debugged. Many thanks to Kyle for creating this very useful software :) -Charles