[hpsdr] Problems programming Mercury and Penny with new firmware.

[Kjell Karlsen]

Hi All.

At last I found what the problems installing new firmware in Mercury and  
specially in  Penny was. Programming Mercury went through after using the  
USB-Blaster but doing the same with Penelope did not work. It seemed as  
Penny blocked the communication over the Atlas Bus. Phil, VK6AP suggested  
that I should check the I2C jumpers on the Penny card. They were both  
installed and when removed, everything worked OK. On Mercury, the two  
jumpers were not installed.

I did not know that some of the communication between Metis and  
Mercury/Penny over the Atlas Bus was modified. In the description of the  
Penelope card, the two jumpers should be installed. I can not remember  
anything mentioned on the reflector about this?

I still have problems when trying to use HPSDRBootloader to program  
Mercury and Penelope. After loading *_JTAG.rbf, the Erasing Flash reports  
timeout, try again? But trying once more does not help.

73, Kjell

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