FARGO electronic 7KDAB manual Load 7K Patch file, Provide RTC data to DAB, Load 7K-IMAGE.BIN

Notice:

The following special word commands were included to aid in the overall firmware development process and are somewhat experimental. While they are implemented, they are not supported at this time, but are documented here for the sake of completeness.

Whenever any of these special word commands are issued, 100% of the 7K’s CPU time is dedicated to executing the associated command. As such, all other controller activity is frozen… meaning any transmitters currently on the air, will stay on the air, no DTMF commands will be possible, etc.

Issuing these commands with mismatched versions of firmware, may cause either the DAB or the 7K controller to hang indefinitely.

Full support may be available in a future release.

9796 – Load 7K Patch file

This causes a patch file to be loaded into the 7K’s firmware patch area. The user needs to be certain that the patch file exists before issuing this command, or the firmware load will fail ungracefully by resetting the controller.

9797 – Provide RTC data to DAB

This will cause the real time clock maintained in the 7KDAB to be set to the current time in the 7K.

9798 – Load 7K-IMAGE.BIN

Issuing this word causes the contents of the 7K’s battery backed SRAM to be overwritten with the contents in this file. The image upload takes approximately 25 seconds, after which the 7K will reset.

Note that this literally will restore the controller to the state that it was in when the save command was executed. Beware of what you ask for… for surely you will find it.

9799 – Save 7K-IMAGE.BIN

Issuing this word cause the contents of the 7K’s battery backed SRAM to be written to the FLASH card. The image download takes approximately 5 seconds.

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