Sigh, people just don't listen to me. If you had made that change to flushrx like I suggested you would automatically get the 'waiting for the prompt' sleep at every point a command is started.

I did listen to you. But I understood more clearly what Mark's change was doing so I tried his version first. Also, as Mark said, I got the impression that your change would happen in more "places" during the process, so I actually did not want to do that (even though that's the very reason why you're saying it would be the better option).

I'm not completely clear on what's going wrong exactly, and I'm not able to reproduce every error, so I wanted to make the changes as small as possible.

True, and like Mark said, it will slow down every single operation by about a second. So it would add about a full minute to the whole erase, reflash cycle. On the other hand, when some one has a 2GHz cpu, it will still work reliably.

Ohhh, they already passed the 2.4GHz mark, well make that 4GHz then

>Had to use the Win32 version of that command,
>though. Capital S, and the value is in milliseconds
>so it was Sleep(100); but the point is that it worked.

If it's in milliseconds, then sleep(1) would translate to Sleep(1000) not 100.

Cheers

Oh yeah, you're right. Good point.

Okay, well, a 1/10 second delay seems to have fixed the bug fine, then.

I am getting a different error. I just upgraded to beta 13. All that worked fine, player is running fine. Tried to put hijack back in and this is what I am running into.

found empeg unit: entering program mode
manufacturer=0089, product=88c1
waiting for prompt
starting erase [Failed to echo-back on erase command.

Error: erasepage(10000) got code 1

Press the Enter key to continue.


Help. I am using LE 1.5 and trying to put any version of Hijack in.

Hm. Thought I'd taken care of that. Sure it's LE 1.5?

Does this one fix it? (File attached)

Save this file as upload.exe in your logoedit directory. Does that solve the problem?

Just downloaded logo edit this morning so I know it's 1.5. and the about says so.

Now I get Error: lockpage(20000,1) got code one.

But Hijack is now installed. It is fine to leave it this way? Someone posted about it being installed but not write protected or something.

Could you please reproduce this problem and post the entire screen of the error rather than just that one line?

I'm working on this actually right this moment and I'd like to sew this up as soon as possible.

Here goes.

found empeg unit: entering program mode
manufacturer=0089, product=88c1
waiting for prompt
starting erase [100%] erase ok
starting program at 0x10000 [Failed to get echo-back on lock/unlock command.

Error: lockpage(20000,1) got code 1

Press the Enter key to continue.

It programs to 100% then give this error. It does this with v300 or v269(latest one I have before 300). Using the latest file you posted(120420). Yes I know about having to rename it.

Okay. see if the attached version of upload.exe fixes the problem and let me know.

Save this file as upload.exe (remember you have to rename it) in your logoedit directory.

94Cobra, if you can catch me on ICQ (1228275) when you have a free minute, buzz me and we'll pound on it back and forth a bit.

I've got a new build of Logo Editor ready with AnnaVu/TuxMuch support, but I want to fix any remaining timing problems in upload.exe before releasing. Only I can't reproduce the problem on my machines so I need someone who CAN reproduce the problems.

Ok, I upgraded to v300 of Hijack, using jEmplode's auto update. It worked fine, so my post isn't really related to this thread, but I didn't think it deserved it's own thread. Anyway...

After installing and using v300 for a while, I'm experiencing noticeable hard drive delays when loading play lists, advancing songs and such. They may only be 2 - 3 times longer than the previous version, but they also sound repetitive, as if the hard drives are trying to read through bad sectors. No errors in playing or any other weirdness has happened to make me believe the HDs are actually going bad. Is there anything I can do to experiment/resolve this?

Has anyone else experienced any latency in HD operations under v300?

Should I try downgrading to v291?

Is there any way to fsck the drives?

Thanks!

Should have made a new thread, your problem sounds like it is completely unrelated to what we're discussing in this thread.

If you are getting the click of death on your hard disks, it is not likely related to the kernel software you've installed. Just to be sure, you're welcome to re-install the full beta13 .upgrade file (stock, without Hijack) and see if the problem goes away. I'll bet it won't.

Please click here to read about possible hard drive problems, and here to read about how to do an FSCK. Keep in mind that if you've got hard disk problems at the hardware level, FSCK isn't going to help you and in fact might cause trouble.

For further discussion on the subject, please start a new thread, I'd like to keep this thread solidly on the topic of fixing the flashing code in upload.exe.

Well, I finally got 94Cobra working.

And the only thing that did the trick was Jan's suggestion of waiting 1 second on every readbyte in the FlushRx call.

Yes, it did slow down the process. But it made it work on his system. Just like you said it would, Jan. And the slowdown isn't all THAT bad.

I humbly apologize for not trying your fix as the very first thing, Jan.

Logoedit 1.6 coming out, probably sometime today.

I knew I just had to wait until Moore's law made desktops fast enough for Murphy's law to kick in.

Didn't expect it to be within only a couple of days though. There must be something with the size of v300 that triggers a sort of worst case behaviour in the flash loader.

Heh, Moore's law && Murphy's law. Good one.

Thanks Tony, I'm not getting the Error: "lockpage(10000,1) got code 1" with this version of Upload now.

Phew.