ok this is the 2nd time ive posted this but it was wiped with the new forums.
i need someone in the know to edit a flashing program to stop it from checking the checksum of the drive or bios file before it proceeds.
my problem is ive flashed the wrong bios to my tape drive.. i can detect andsee the drive fine but whats acctually happened is i have flashed a slightly different drives bios to my drive and now i can flash the correct one because its detecting that the checksum is different (why it didnt do this in the first place i have no idea). the program has no switches to force the flash either thats why i was hoping someone can edit the program for me.
the link to the url to download the flahsing too and bios is:
http://www.tecmar.com/download/firmware/267FLASH.EXE
(its a self extracting zip file)
please if anyone can do this for me (rainbow ?), im desprit.
thanks
Editing the flashing program of a tape drive.
Hi
Hmmm, I'd opt for removing the firmware chip from a working drive.
Read it's content and flash your chip using an external flashing device.
As the firmware-Image (avail from the download) has an odd size, it might not be a plain chip image.
Bye
Thomas
Hmmm, I'd opt for removing the firmware chip from a working drive.
Read it's content and flash your chip using an external flashing device.
As the firmware-Image (avail from the download) has an odd size, it might not be a plain chip image.
Bye
Thomas
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thanks for your reply.
i dont have access to one of those and as far as i can see and identify there is no removable chips on the drive.
i rekon my only way of getitng this working is to have the bios flashing program not checking the checksum which i need help with..
pleease im getting desprit its been about 1 month now (
i dont have access to one of those and as far as i can see and identify there is no removable chips on the drive.
i rekon my only way of getitng this working is to have the bios flashing program not checking the checksum which i need help with..
pleease im getting desprit its been about 1 month now (
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its the old NS8 auto load.. i flashed it with the NS8 Manual Load bios.
the drive works fine just the autoloading thing doesnt work.. i guess if no one can help me ill try to modify the drive and get rid of the auto loading bit, but that coudl get messy
oh i flashed it with the P633 bios.
the drive works fine just the autoloading thing doesnt work.. i guess if no one can help me ill try to modify the drive and get rid of the auto loading bit, but that coudl get messy
oh i flashed it with the P633 bios.