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FireBird

Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 1:45 pm

Frequent contributor Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 348 Location: Vienna/Austria

I had some time to fix the remaining known issues.

Here?s the download of HDFW V2.

New features since V1.1

Add or remove patches from a tfd-file, the firmware in flash or RAM
Create a backup of the current firmware in flash
New GUI

.tap and .lng should be copied into the ProgramFiles folder. The ProfileEditor.tap can be used to play around with the colours of the dialog but is not needed to run HDFW. All patch files (*.ftp), firmware files (*.tfd) and optionally the aXeL loader (aXeL.tfd) should be copied into the folder ProgramFiles\HDFW_Firmware. It is automatically created upon the first launch of HDFW.

Last edited by FireBird on Fri Feb 29, 2008 2:39 pm; edited 1 time in total

R2-D2

Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 1:58 pm

Frequent contributor Joined: 18 Dec 2006 Posts: 12149

I'd just like to thank FireBird for the huge amount of hard work he's put into this. The change over v1.1 is enormous, and his new GUI system (available for everyone in FireBirdLib) is really lovely. There's no excuse to miss out on the essential patches now!

alan_m

Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 2:43 pm

Frequent contributor Joined: 17 Oct 2006 Posts: 2978 Location: Southchurch Village, Southend-on-Sea

R2-D2 wrote:

I've just tried it a few times.

It requires 12M of free Memory so I had to boot with no TAPs first. This suggests that I have too many TAPs running so a bit of spring cleaning may be in order Smile

. I'm running the latest software which gives more free memory after loading TAPs

After the reboot instigated by the TAP I always get 'verifying files and folders'. This is something I seldom see but I've re-flashed 4 times using this TAP and I get it every time.

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R2-D2

Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 2:56 pm

Frequent contributor Joined: 18 Dec 2006 Posts: 12149

alan_m wrote:

After the reboot instigated by the TAP I always get 'verifying files and folders'.

The "normal" reboot does a clunk and ends up without recognising the hard disk (on my standard 160Gb Toppy, at least). FireBird has managed to tweak this (not putting the disk into sleep mode, I think), and I notice you've not got the normal disk in your Toppy, so maybe there's an issue there.

DB1

Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 3:06 pm

Frequent contributor Joined: 30 Mar 2005 Posts: 662 Location: Orpington

The ProfileEditor tap complains it cannot find it's .lng file.

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alan_m

Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 3:07 pm

Frequent contributor Joined: 17 Oct 2006 Posts: 2978 Location: Southchurch Village, Southend-on-Sea

R2-D2 wrote:

alan_m wrote:

After the reboot instigated by the TAP I always get 'verifying files and folders'.

I've fitted the Samsung HD400LD which is, I believe, from the same range that Topfield fit for the 160/250G models.

alan_m

Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 3:08 pm

Frequent contributor Joined: 17 Oct 2006 Posts: 2978 Location: Southchurch Village, Southend-on-Sea

DB1 wrote:

The ProfileEditor tap complains it cannot find it's .lng file.

DB1

Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 3:11 pm

Frequent contributor Joined: 30 Mar 2005 Posts: 662 Location: Orpington

I got the impression that this would tell me the patches on the running f/w - I just get a "firmware folder empty" and OK closes the TAP. Sad

FireBird

Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 3:15 pm

Frequent contributor Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 348 Location: Vienna/Austria

DB1 wrote:

The ProfileEditor tap complains it cannot find it's .lng file.

Sorry, the ZIP has been updated.

FireBird

Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 3:18 pm

Frequent contributor Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 348 Location: Vienna/Austria

DB1 wrote:

I got the impression that this would tell me the patches on the running f/w - I just get a "firmware folder empty" and OK closes the TAP. Sad

Right now, you need at least one firmware file in HDFW_Firmware.

mossman

Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 3:49 pm

Frequent contributor Joined: 26 Jul 2006 Posts: 576 Location: South of Birmingham, TX: Sutton Coldfield

Great work - the new GUI looks good as well. Patching and upgrading firmware is even simpler now. Smile

DB1

Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 4:17 pm

Frequent contributor Joined: 30 Mar 2005 Posts: 662 Location: Orpington

FireBird wrote:

DB1 wrote:

I got the impression that this would tell me the patches on the running f/w - I just get a "firmware folder empty" and OK closes the TAP. Sad

Right now, you need at least one firmware file in HDFW_Firmware.

OK thanks - will have a play Smile

alan_m

Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 4:22 pm

Frequent contributor Joined: 17 Oct 2006 Posts: 2978 Location: Southchurch Village, Southend-on-Sea

R2-D2 wrote:

alan_m wrote:

After the reboot instigated by the TAP I always get 'verifying files and folders'.

Edit:
Update Re: verifying files and folders

Although the first 4 'flashes' resulted in verifying files and folders I have since done a few more without problems (swapping between two versions of firmware)

andyrogers

Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 4:28 pm

Frequent contributor Joined: 07 Dec 2005 Posts: 814

Just had a play around with this and so far so good.

It looks and and works great.

Has anyone been able to use the Use Ram option?

When i use this I can get a list of patches that it says I can select to flash the ram with, but when i try to and select the option about the bottom to apply patches, this option is grayed out.

Anyone else seen/getting this?

Thanks

Andrew

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FireBird

Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 4:34 pm

Frequent contributor Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 348 Location: Vienna/Austria

andyrogers wrote:

When i use this I can get a list of patches that it says I can select to flash the ram with, but when i try to and select the option about the bottom to apply patches, this option is grayed out.

As soon as you (de-)select a patch, it is immediately applied.

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