If you live near a Frys Electronics you can buy a interface board from them the info needed is in this link Frys Interface Board I have found two other interface circuits Circut 1 Circut 2 I have connected to my drive with the Frys interface board and was able to see the error code. I was not however able to enter command mode so I was hoping to hear from Fatlip to make sure I was connecting things right. One other thing the com port setting seem to be 38400,n,8,1