[hpsdr] win 7 x64 error PowerSDR driver - timing problem?

[Georg Prinz]

Hello Bill and Joe,

I tried the minimal version with one mercury and ozy board, only. The 
same result.  It says OZY not attached and the errors are the same.

The same configuration I loaded with mercury firmware 2.9a (this 
responds to file mercury_2.9) and PowerSDR "KD5TFD 2. Feb 2011b derived 
from v.1.10.4 BaseSVN2025 and bingo - it works perfectly.

Now I can exclude the hardware, for it is working with earlier single 
board version software.
Maybe this is a timing problem.

My computer system consists of:
- Mainboard AMD-890FX Gigabyte GA-890FXA-UD5
   -- chipset AMD 890FX + SB850

- CPU AMD Phenom IIx4Quad-Core 965BE, 3,4GHz

- memory Kingston/CL9 2 x DDR3-1333 4GB



Am 04.03.2011 06:00, schrieb Bill Tracey:
> Hi Georg,
>
> I don't think the porttalk  stuff matters - that's all legacy stuff 
> for the SDR 1000 parallel port control and pretty much fails with no 
> ill side effect as far as I know.   If you want to eliminate it 
> completely I believe adding  --neuterPP to the command line arguments 
> should short circuit all references to porttalk.
>
> I'm not 100% convinced the hardware config is OK ... we're definitely 
> seeing the FX2 on the USB bus since we're able to get a version number 
> from it and can talk to the I2C bus  on Penelope - that all goes 
> through the FX2.   The lack of version info for Ozy, Merc and Penny is 
> not a good sign and the OzyBulkRead failed messages are definitely a 
> problem.
>
> Can you try it with a minimal configuration - just Ozy and one Mercury 
> card?
>
> Regards,
>
> Bill (kd5tfd)
>
>
>
> At 09:24 AM 3/3/2011, Georg Prinz wrote:
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>>
>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>> I am still struggling to get Joe's diversity18 system into operation on
>> win7 x64bit OS with adapted PowerSDR program and OZY board for
>> communication.
>>
>> In the meantime I found porttalk.sys in Joe's release folder and 
>> copied it into \windows\system32\drivers. Unfortunately with no 
>> result (as I expected). The error messages are the same.
>> Nevertheless driver loading should be automatically done.
>>
>> The system device manager says, that LibUSB-Win32 Devices by 
>> FlexRadio/OpenHPSDR.org/Acquisition Logic is working properly.
>>
>> Furthermore, on both mercury boards, the led for "fpga loaded 
>> properly2 is on. The two most left leds indicating "code running" are 
>> blinking.
>>
>> I hope that this second attempt will reach someone with a window 7 
>> x64 system to give me support.
>>
>>
>>
>> Following history:
>>
>> - I am using signed driver by K9TRV downloaded form "repos hpsdr kiss"
>> - Loading of Joe's firmware version 6.3 into both mercury boards and v.
>> 6.1 into Penelope without any problems and errors
>>
>> Results:
>>
>> 1st check starting initozy11.bat and redirect standard error to a file
>> shows following situation:
>>
>> - PID and VID recognized
>> - loadFW ozyfw-sdr1k.hex succeeded (UploadFirmware returns 742)
>> - LoadFPGA succeeded (114963 bytes transferred)
>> - writeI2C 0xfffe 0x7 0x1a ..... failed is correct, for no Janus board
>> - writeI2C 0xfffe 0x7 0x1b ..... all 8 calls succeeded for penny
>>
>> 2nd check starting PowerSDR.exe and redirect standard error to a file
>> shows following situation:
>>
>> - Error message :"Invalid firmware level is loaded ozy v16, pen. v12 and
>> merc. v27 and PowerSDR stops
>> - Output on standard error channel:
>>   -- PortTalk: Unknown error while starting PortTalk driver service
>>   -- Does PortTalk.SYS exist in your \System32 Drivers Directory?
>>   -- Couldn't access PortTalk Driver, Please ensure driver is loaded
>>   -- Error occured during outportb while talking to PortTalk driver 6
>>
>> 3rd check starting PowerSDR.exe --no-firmware-version-check 2>&1>
>> log.txt showing  following situation:
>> - PowerSDR is more or less running with noise floor about -130dBm
>> - Output on standard error channel:
>>   -- same as above plus
>>         --- using Ozy/Janus callback
>>         --- version:>20090524<
>>         --- sa: samples_per_block: 2048
>>         --- fx2: 20090524
>>         --- Ozy: 0
>>         --- merc: 0
>>         --- penny: 0
>>         --- Firmware ver check forced good!
>>         --- OzyBulkRead failed rc=-116
>>
>> The System32 folder does not contain PortTalk driver so far I can see.
>> The same under SysWOW64 folder.
>>
>> I also tried different USB port and shorter USB cable (5m and 1,5m)
>>
>> The harwardware seems to be ok. Otherwise PowerSDR wouldn't work when
>> started with no version check.
>>
>> 73, Georg - dl2kp
>
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