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    Re: Firmware download troubles —Matthew White
   Also: When it seems to get to the very end before the error appears, I sometimes get a long (3-4 seconds) low tone from the RCX. Matt (22 years ago, 9-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
   
        Re: Firmware download troubles —Joseph Woolley
     Matt, I discovered that the IR LED's and detector on my serial tower was located higher than I expected and pointed upward somewhat. I was able to get better transfers when the tower was leaning forward (pointing downward so to speak). Otherwise, I (...) (22 years ago, 9-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
    
         Re: Firmware download troubles —Matthias Jetleb
     (...) The problem he's describing, if it's the same one I have, is independant of the position, direction, and power level of the tower. It seems to have something to do with BrixCC itself. The only thing I find puzzling is that Matt (the other Matt (...) (22 years ago, 13-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
    
         RE: Firmware download troubles —Ralph Hempel
     The size of the firmware isn't going past the 0xcc00 boundary, is it? The firmware in the RCX only does a sum on the bytes up to 0xCBFF in the downloaded firmware, as far as I recall... Cheers, Ralph (22 years ago, 13-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
   
        Re: Firmware download troubles —Dick Swan
   The low buzz tone is an error generated by the ROM firmware for failure condition detected as part of the "unlock firmware" opcode. There are two causes of this. [1] ROM software calculates a checksum value of the downloaded firmware and this (...) (22 years ago, 10-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
 

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