[time-nuts] recovering firmware on TS2100

[Scott McGrath]

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Srecord.sourceforge.net.  Version 1.62 is current. You will need to build it as this is provided as source code only.  It can be built for windows using Cygwin 

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> On Dec 26, 2013, at 3:07 PM, Anton Kapela <tkapela at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Fellow nuts,
> 
> I've got a TS2100 that failed to install/write a flash image of v 4.1
> (using firmware from http://ko4bb.com/). Looking at the tcpdump of the
> packets in flight, I get the sense that the TS2100 isn't liking what
> I've got to offer it (I'm assuming it's checking for SREC format, not
> finding it, and aborts the transfer).  After several failed attempts
> to copy the image over (tried atftpd on linux, tftpd on fbsd and
> osx...), I lost power and the unit is now setting on console port
> only, using the v1.x recovery rom image. So, access is there, network
> stack is up, etc. I tried again from the recovery image to copy over v
> 4.1 to flash -- to avail.
> 
> Of course, after this failed to work, I noticed that ko4bb's archive
> of v 4.1 isn't SREC format (and I see many ref'x to the .HEX files as
> having been provided in SREC format). It looks like what I've got is
> an actual raw binary image of the executable code, not the SREC
> equivalent.
> 
> So, does a guy have to covert this binary to SREC himself, or is there
> something I can nab right-quick online?
> 
> ...better yet: can anyone confirm the zip archive on kobb.com is
> legit, and not corrupt?
> 
> Best,
> 
> -Tk
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