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Re: problem with CF card not ready & problem with [xyz]modem
- From: Celine Latulipe <clatulip at cgl dot uwaterloo dot ca>
- To: Gary Thomas <gary at chez-thomas dot org>
- Cc: eCos Discussion <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 11:41:33 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] problem with CF card not ready & problem with [xyz]modem
On 29 Jul 2002, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 09:14, Celine Latulipe wrote:
> > I've set up minicom so that I type in the file name. So, at the redboot
> > prompt in minicom I type:
> >
> > load -r -b 0x100000 -m xmodem
> >
> > Then I type Ctrl-A S to send files and select the xmodem protocol and then
> > I type in redboot.bin.
> >
> > Minicom tells me:
> >
> > Sending redboot.bin, 1438 blocks: Give your local XMODEM receive command
> > now.
> >
> > Then it just sits there for awhile doing nothing and eventually I get this
> > message:
> > Xmodem sectors/kbytes sent: 0/ 0kRetry 0: Timeout on sector ACK
> >
> > At this point I get fed up and press Ctrl-C because it's obviously not
> > doing anything...
> >
>
> How long was "a while"? You probably need to let it do this, at least
> once, before the two ends get synchronized. However, it should be less
> than 10 seconds total.
I'm talking about 3-5 minutes that I waited and nothing happens.
> If you give RedBoot the "load" command, but don't do anything with
> minicom, what happens? You should see a string of "C" characters come
> out, about one every 3 to 5 seconds. This tells you that RedBoot is
> ready to accept the X-modem data.
>
If I type:
load -r -b 0x100000 -m xmodem
at the redboot prompt in minicom, but then don't try to send anything, I
don't get anything. There is no string of "C" characters, even after
waiting about 3 minutes.
Celine
>
>
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