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

[John Melton]

Hi Berndt,

You can get a time out on the erase if the Metis and Mercury cards are
not in the correct slots - Metis in slot farthest away from the Power
connector and Mercury in the adjacent slot.

I have not had a Mercury-EU to test with, but have no problems with the
TAPR Mercury.

Regards,

John  g0orx/n6lyt

On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 13:08 +0800, Phil Harman wrote:
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> 
> 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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