[hpsdr] Cannot flash Mercury-EU with Metis and HPSDR

[Phil Harman]

Hi Berndt,

Sorry to hear that you are having trouble programming your Mercury-EU board.

I'm not sure if there are any hardware differences between Mercury and
Mercury-EU but if so then its possible that you are going to need a
different version of Mercury_JTAG.rbf for the EU board.

Has anyone successfully updated the EEPROM on a Mercury-EU using Metis in
Bootloader mode?

73 Phil...VK6APH



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> G'day,
>
> I've been trying to upgrade a Mercury-EU card to V6.4 using the latest
> version of HPSDRProgrammer running on Ubuntu 10.04 and Windows 7 64 bits
> to no avail.
>
> Metis has JP1 set
> Mercury has JP5 set (last JTAG)
>
> Running as administrator. Interrogate under the JTAG Programmer tab
> returns:
>
> Interrogating JTAG chain
> Mercury - 0x020F30
> found Mercury
>
> The following reported error messages are identical for both, Windows
> and Linux environment:
>
> /home/wulf/ghpsdr3/trunk/src/release/windows/HPSDRProgrammer/Mercury_JTAG.rbf
> reading file...
> file read successfully
> Programming device 0% written ...
> Programming device 0% written ...
> Programming device 0% written ...
> Programming device 0% written ...
> Programming device 0% written ...
> Loaded successfully.
> Erasing Flash ... (takes several seconds)
> Error: erase timeout - power cycle and try again?
>
>
> The Metis status LEDs at this time are
>
> LED0	occasionally flashing
> LED1	off
> LED2	off
> LED3	off
> LED4	flashes 1Hz
> LED5	off
> LED6	on
> LED7	off
> LED8	on
> LED9  	off
> LED10	off
> LED11	off
> LED12	flashes 2Hz
>
> The debug output is shown below:
>
> Debug: MainWindow::timeout state= 9
> Debug: MainWindow::timeout state= 9
> Debug: MainWindow::timeout state= 9
> Debug: MainWindow::timeout state= 9
> Debug: status: "Error: erase timeout - power cycle and try again?"
> Debug: idle
> Debug: RawReceiveThread::stop
>
>
> Different ATLAS boards and changed card positions have no effect keeping
> both, Metis and Mercury-EU, next to each other.
>
> Is there anything else that I could try? I'm at the end with my Latinum
> and need some inspiration.
>
> 73, Berndt
> VK5ABN
>
>
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