[hpsdr] Failed to program Mercury

[Dale Boresz]

Bob,

Have you tried Virtual Box yet? It's Open Source and licensed under the GPL.
< http://www.virtualbox.org/ >

I've been using it for a couple of years under Ubuntu to run Windows 
2003 Server Edition vm's, and it has performed very well. Haven't tried 
their virtual USB controllers yet, but it's an easy install, and seems 
pretty lightweight to me.

73, Dale
WA8SRA


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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