[etherlab-dev] foe_write for copley firmware update

[Ricardo Ribalda Delgado]

Have you tried the unofficial patchset? It solves an issue with the
foe timeout calculation

https://sourceforge.net/u/uecasm/etherlab-patches/ci/default/tree/


regards!

On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 6:33 PM,  <Lingjie_Kong at amat.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I am just wondering that does anybody notice the following issue when
> downloading the firmware for Copley Drive through foe_write command.
>
>
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> First, I put the Copley drive into BOOT mode.
>
> ethercat -m0 states -p0 BOOT
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>
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> Then, I send the Copley .cff to download firmware
>
> ethercat -m0 foe_write -p0 /var/ftp/gather/BE2_2.99.cff
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>
>
> However, I consistently get FOE_TIMEOUT_ERROR and FOE_WC_ERROR
>
>
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> Based on what Copley told me that,
>
>
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> “It looks like your EtherCAT FoE command timed out during the firmware
> download.  Can you increase the timeout that it uses? At the start of the
> firmware download the drive needs to erase the old firmware before it can
> start writing the new file.  This can take several seconds.  During that
> time the drive will indicate that it's busy and the master should keep
> trying.  It's possible that the master program you're using quit before the
> drive finished erasing the flash.”
>
>
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> Therefore, I am just wondering that does anybody has problem on downloading
> firmware through foe_write like above and how to resolve it. Any suggestion
> will be really appreciated.
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
>
>
> Lingjie (Kimi) Kong
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Ricardo Ribalda