[hpsdr] Failed to program Mercury

Thu Feb 5 05:05:08 PST 2009

Dale

It's a long road I've been down with VM's. I've been running VMWare Server
1.x (free) for a couple of years and loved it. It made life very easy for
backups and switching to a new OS version with no risk and no pain, for
having a clean OS to test installs, and to separate my life into different
VM's - I'm completely sold on virtulisaion. Then comes along HPSDR. I need
USB2 support which VMWare Server 1.x does not have but 2.0 does. I
download and install 2.0 to find it's a totally different beast, web based
interface and really no longer suitable for a workstation - it is the
server edition proper. I didn't like the interface, couldn't figure how to
do a lot of things I did before so threw it in the bin. I downloaded
VMWare Workstation (not free, 30 day trial) which looked exactly like
VMWare Server 1.x except it supported USB2 and had a few nice features
like shared folders. Great I thought, I'm even prepared to pay for it.

Before I did this I looked at VirtualBox and couldn't decide if it
supported USB2 or not. It looks like the closed version does but whether
it will be any better than VMWare I don't know. If I find I have any enery
left after all this I will give it a try.

73
Bob
G3UKB

> 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:
>> ***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List *****
>>
>> 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:
>>
>>> ***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List *****
>>>
>>> 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:
>>>>
>>>>> ***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List *****
>>>>>
>>>>> 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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