R & S CRTU-RU Software Update

[davorin]

I just received a 2nd CRTU-RU as I want to use one of them for reverse engineering/testing with Linux OS installed...

The first one has version 4.34 installed, whereas the 2nd has 3.24....
Can I now just dump the HD image from the newer version onto the older version?

Interestingly the older version accepts a CF card with a PCMCIA adapter, the 4.34 version doesn't recognize the PCMCIA with CF at all for dumping...


Wel..I could just first swap the drives between them and see what happens (o;

[Mr Simpleton]

Don't forget to do a clone back-up first... you never know what happens when auto config starts when the OS senses new h/w....

[Neganur]

What's the capacity of the internal HDD btw? And is it still 44-pin PATA or is it already SATA? Not gotten around to do a backup yet myself.

[davorin]

What is the easiest way to do a HD dump first?

Install some Windows XP software on it and dump to USB drive?
Or can I boot from an attached USB Linux ghost4linux system?

[Neganur]

Afaik you should be able to boot from a USB device. Gut feeling tells me to not mess with the data on the drive. My approach would be to remove the drive, use a separate computer which  boots from a live CD with a HD copy software to do a low level 1:1 copy.

Maybe someone else has an already proven method.

[davorin]

Hmm....I first try to boot with ghost4linux from USB stick...

With ghost4linux I was some while ago able to clone a company laptops encrypted drive and run that image within VMWare on OSX laptop...


But HDs are interchangeable, right? It's just the dongle in the back that stays...

[tmbinc]

Please do a full dump of the second unit's HDD; most of the units come with different test cases installed, it would be great if we could collect them. R&S states (though that's debatable) that they no longer _have_ the firmware for these things on their servers. Also the HDDs keep dying. Make a backup.

In one of my units, I replaced the HDD with a PATA-to-SD bridge and a 64GB SD card, and it works fine.

USB is slow since it's 1.1 only. The best way is to get into Windows, use Network and copy over the 4.34 firmware (if you want that) on the DOS OPSW drive (\CMU\BIN_V4.34); copy that to the target device. Then enter the version manager (boot into DOS OPSW, and when it beeps three times, press menu/select. Select the software version and update to it; it will reflash everything to the right version).

Keep in mind that in order to use the Windows software, you need to be on V3.23 (or V4.00 which I haven't seen). But you can easily flash back-and-forth (you can have multiple version installed and use the version manager to activate the correct one).

[Neganur]

What's the capacity of the internal HDD btw? And is it still 44-pin PATA or is it already SATA? Not gotten around to do a backup yet myself.

80 GB PATA btw, it's right there on the boot screen, doh

[davorin]

Isn't that slower with an SD card?

Hoped to find  a P-ATA SSD here in .ch...but no luck....

Another option would be the IDE/CF adapters I used to replace the dead HDD on a HP 16500B...

[Neganur]

I don't see a point in putting an SSD into those. Doesn't the interesting part boot from a dos partition even? I don't think the drive is what is slowing down the self test during boot.
I imagine not all of the 80 GB capacity is needed (how big is the w2k partition?) so maybe one of those flash drive things is sufficient. Then again, 2.5" ide laptop drives are incredibly affordable.

But if you really want to, there are PATA SSD drives on www.reichelt.de or maybe a gamble on ebay.

[davorin]

Well I will try CF adapter first (o;

One of my CRTUs shows a 120GB Fujitsu drive....haven't looked though at the partition usage...

Probably an SSD makes more sense on a HP 16702 analyzer...which takes endlessly to boot up and "rödels" all the way...(o;