[hpsdr] Failed to program Mercury

[Georg Prinz]

Hello Bob,
please keep us informed about your progress!
I am in the process to look for a new computer system. I would like to
run VMWare, too. Butt all I read was disappointing about the speed using
USB2 interface.

Vy73, Georg, dl2kp


On Do, 2009-02-05 at 11:22 +0000, Bob Cowdery wrote:
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> I pressed into service my wife's machine which is a pretty slow 2.8GHz
> Celron. After a bit of messing with getting the right levels of software
> on and a few crashes I managed to program Mercury and it all works on
> air very nicely. It looks like the VMWare emulation of USB2 is very
> slow. In fact I can tell from the difference in the speed it went
> through initozy11.bat how slow it was. I have 2.5 on Mercury now and
> that is even worse if I try it on VMWare, there is nothing discernible
> as a signal so I guess it takes more bandwidth. This is a big
> disappointment to me that I will have to re-evaluate how I do
> development. Nothing to do with the guys who developed the boards and
> software who have done a fantastic job. I take my hat off to you.
> 
> 73
> Bob
> G3UKB
> 
> On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 08:03 +0000, Bob Cowdery wrote:
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> > Bill
> > As per the instructions Mercury is in 6 and Ozy in 5. I checked the PSU
> > voltages and they are all fine. I'm going to have to build an XP machine
> > to see if this emulated USB2 is the root of all evil although I would
> > have though the critical timing would be between Ozy and Mercury for
> > programming.
> > 
> > Regards
> > Bob
> > 
> > On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 22:26 -0600, Bill Tracey wrote:
> > > Bob,
> > > 
> > > What slot were Mercury and Ozy in?  If Ozy is in J(n) Mercury needs 
> > > to be in J(n+1).    The J(n) labels are silk screened on the Atlas board.
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > 
> > > Bill (kd5tfd)
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > At 03:59 PM 2/4/2009, Bob Cowdery wrote:
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> > > >
> > > >I seem to having far more than my fair share of problems. I tried to
> > > >update Mercury firmware and all went well until I got this. Yes I did
> > > >put the jumper on Mercury. Any ideas would be very welcome.
> > > >
> > > >Bob
> > > >G3UKB
> > > ><snipped>
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
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