I was finally able to update the firmware. I went from 3607 to 6520. I don't know what exactly did it, but I played around with the serial configuration on the device. Even though I turned off flow control a few days ago, somehow it was enabled again. After I turned it off, the update worked. I have not had a chance yet to actually use the device with the new firmware. This has to wait until tonight. Karl Heinz On 7/2/07, Karl Heinz Kremer <khk@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks for trying this. This at least shows that it's not a problem with just my device. Maybe I should just start saving money for a i1 :) Karl Heinz On 7/2/07, Graeme Gill <graeme@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Karl Heinz Kremer wrote: > > > Yes, my device has very old firmware. I'm trying to update it with the > > latest version that's available on the X-Rite web site - so far > > without success. The uploader does not talk to my device either... No > > luck under WinXP, Win98's dos shell or Freedos. > > Hmm. I just got out my DTP51 and tried it with -v, and it too > doesn't support the GI command. It shows the firmware version > 5127 on power up, while the last firmware from X-Rite is 6520. > > I couldn't get the firmware to download either - the loader > was probing the port, and in fact starts communicating with > the instrument (using an undocumented protocol), but the instrument > responds with "<01>" then "<81>" at some stage, so the loader > gives up and starts trying other baud rates. Maybe the firmware > is so old that it can't be upgraded in this manner. > (I used sysinternals portmon on MSWindows to see what > was going on). > > Graeme Gill. > >