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Well, I managed to screw things up by not reading ahead far enough.<br><br>I made the mistake of trying to load new version of Mercury firmware via Metis<br>without placing JP1. So, I think, I've loaded the Mercury code into Metis, which killed it.<br>In looking back through the emails I've found some references to getting Metis back by<br>using a "byteblaster" of which I do not have. Is there a graceful way to restore Metis<br>using "HPSDRProgrammer"? I hope so. Sorry to be such a dunce. But I'm learning<br>as I go. (I think) HI.<br><br>I thought all was going well last night after being successful in loading the new Metis<br>firmware. But it was late, and I got in a hurry. Lesson learned. I'll not do that again.<br><br>Any help will be greatly appreciated!! <br><br>73, Bill, wf4r<br><br><br>Feb 20, 2011 02:24:04 PM, mcdermj@xenotropic.com wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 3px solid rgb(102, 153, 204)">***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List *****<br><br>On Feb 20, 2011, at 10:52 AM, Joe Martin K5SO wrote:<br><br>> The Metis board is quite happy once again. All in all working on this problem was a positive experience for me since I now know how to use my blaster cable, in a couple of different ways even, and have learned much more about what really goes on with the boards (working and non-working).<br><br>If you're using the byteblaster method, you need to use caution. There are two different files for programming the board. There's one with only the Metis code in it, and there's a "merged" file that contains the Metis code, and the Bootloader code. If you only program the Metis code, your board will work fine under normal operations but if you try to use anything that requires you put J2 on the Metis board, it will no longer function (J2 essentially tells the FPGA which firmware to load off of the flash chip).<br><br>The last time I recall, there was no sof for the merged file, only a pof. It was called output_file.pof. You'll know it in the Altera programmer because when you open up the file you'll see two segments in the list that appears in the center of the window.<br><br>So, I'd check with Phil to make sure you got the right file. I don't recall if the merged .pof file has been released anywhere publicly.<br><br>> 73, Joe K5SO<br><br>--<br>Jeremy McDermond (NH6Z)<br>Xenotropic Systems<br>mcdermj@xenotropic.com<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>HPSDR Discussion List<br>To post msg: hpsdr@openhpsdr.org<br>Subscription help: http://lists.openhpsdr.org/listinfo.cgi/hpsdr-openhpsdr.org<br>HPSDR web page: http://openhpsdr.org<br>Archives: http://lists.openhpsdr.org/pipermail/hpsdr-openhpsdr.org/<br></blockquote>
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