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Unified tektool released ! (Firmware flash tools for old Tektronix TDS series)
NathanFulton:
--- Quote from: calmissile on May 27, 2022, 02:07:20 am ---Could someone please post or email me a compiled version of TekTool or TekFWtool for DOS or WIN98.
I am using a NI PCII/IIA GPIB board that works fine.
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I was able to get Unified TekTool running on Win98SE. I needed to put this DLL in the same directory as tektool.exe to get it to work. It comes from the Visual C++ redistributable from around 1998.
jeroen74:
Would these tools work with a very early TDS540 (no suffix) with probably the oldest firmware around? It still works, and I don't know if the NVRAM has ever been replaced so I want to back it up before it starts dying.
TERRA Operative:
Copying out the firmware and NVRAM won't hurt anything, so worth a try.
If you get it out successfully, feel free to post it here and let us know the firmware version so I can upload it to Tekwiki for posterity. :)
jeroen74:
Just went to check the firmware, it's v1.10e.
jeroen74:
So I tried to get it to work today, and surprisingly, after installing all the stuff for the NI GPIB-USB-B adapter the tool works right-away.
I can't get it to identify the Flash chips though:
--- Code: ---C:\tektools>tektool5 -i -b 0x1000000 -l 0x10
base: 01000000
Flash ID1: 0x89898989
identify failed
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I managed to download the firmware, but I have no idea if it's actually a proper image :) There's readable text in it that make sense but could as well be an incomplete image.
Used this command to get the attached bin file.
--- Code: ---tektool5 -r fw1_10e.bin -b 0x1000000 -l 0x400000
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