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Subject: Re: Player flashing

Re: Player flashing

From: sophana <jobarjo78_at_yahoo.fr>
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 11:23:00 +0200

I think I have a non flashable player (from the debug menu)

You know what, I had a look at the datasheets. It is incredible that
they made such a flash which is not designed to be flashed in situ (like
all other)

But it should be still possible to program the flash by controlling 2 pins:
first apply 12v on the CE (should be controlled by software, 12v from
external device of course)
then play with the sh1 wait state pin to make 10us write pulses. This
little logic can be implemented in a very smal PLD adding wait states
only for write accesses.
the timings seem compatible...

Then to program the flash the software just have to apply the 12v, then
directly write into the flash.

what do you think of that?


[IDC]Dragon wrote:

>>Just some quick questions:
>>has anyone verified that the players sh1 roms are the same than recorders?
>>
>>
>
>Yes, the content is the same through all models. I have a collection of
>dumps...
>
>However, some more recent models (not the players) have no ROM. This is
>apparently cheaper. They start directly from flash, the circuitry is a bit
>different to allow for this (mapping the flash also to address 0). You can
>check under Info -> Debug -> View HW info.
>For these I use a slightly different flash bootloader.
>
>Jörg
>
>
>

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