Vosonic X’s-Drive Super VP6210 Firmware Upgrading Information
There's always two firmware upgrade areas to watch for. The PS2002 upgrades and the DSP upgrades. PS2002 firmware handles the card reading part of the device, DSP firmware handles the general device operation and hard drive operation.
PS2002 upgrade method for card reader, and apparently something to do with hard drive size.
DSP upgrade method for disk and general operation (both PS2002 and DSP must be done to keep the
unit up to date).
The list of main firmware DSP updates and what they did
PS2002 is now at V1.0D and is upgraded by using the application program on a host PC.
The DSP firmware is now at V1.2.8 and is updated by copying the appropriate xxx.MMV file to the VP6210 hard drive and then doing the upgrade with the VP6210 off line. See down below for the DSP upgrade procedure.
Be aware that the VP6210, VP6230, VP6300 VP6310 and others(?) may all use the same basic firmware, but the firmware files are not interchangeable due to functional differences in the devices. It is advisable to save all the firmware file versions as they appear, and they can be kept on your PC for emergencies and also kept on the VP6210 etc unit so you can swap between firmware versions to test features and faults. I have kept the VP6210 versions since V105 but only the V118 and up versions should be kept now as at V118 the folder structure changed. Email Vosonic if you want any older firmware, they usually oblige.
Warning: Make sure you only use FR0AGxxx files to attempt upgrades to the VP6210. After a certain version there is a check built in to prevent accidental upgrades with, say, VP6230 firmware. Before that, the wrong firmware could be loaded with the result of loss of features. One case I had to deal with had FR0AH123 firmware loaded over FR0AG111 firmware. This had the effect of making the LCD all white, the unit still could be used but only with a TV attached to see what was happening. Any attempt to reload any FR0AGxxx firmware was blocked by the FR0AH123 firmware. So we had to obtain from Vosonic an old or modified version of the H type firmware that didn't have a version check and load that over the FR0AH123 firmware, and then load the correct FR0AG123 firmware again to get it all working OK. It looked like a hardware failure, but was only a firmware muddle. Be careful!
From 16th February 2007 Vosonic has 0A 1.2.8 available for download. Some features added and fixes made.
As from about September 2007 the discontinued Vosonic items have disappeared from their site, but if you email them they will provide links to the downloads for your model.
The official information......
Firmware for discontinued
products (like the VP6210)
ftp://59.124.166.214/Firmware/
Or ftp://59.124.166.214/Firmware/VP6210/
Before accessing the website, please login:
User Name: vouser
Password: vouser65236
This page contains a list of all firmware available for the
discontinued
models. At last try in late October 2007, this username password
combination failed to work, so it is always best to email Vosonic to
get the firmware updates, and in doing so tells them how much that
information is needed. For the contact email, go to their 'Contact Us' page found from
http://www.vosonic.com/
Earlier I did the latest PS2002 firmware upgrade found at Vosonic.
I then used Win2000 SP4 with latest Rollup installed and the upgrade worked for me. Also later tried the upgrade program on a WinXP system and it interfaced OK with the VP6210 but of course I couldn't proceed with an actual upgrade as it had already been done on the Win2000 PC.
PS2002 Upgrade Method (must do this to keep Card Reader firmware up to date)
Download the upgrade zip file from http://www.vosonic.com/index.php?PA=support and find your unit (it may be under discontinued products) and then look for "PS2002 Firmware V1.0D" (or later version when it happens at some time in the future). The only comment attached to V1.0B is that it allows up to 120gig hard drives. And V1.0C says "Add the support of SDHC SD V2.0 memory cards". Now V1.0D adds ability to handle SDHC cards and xD M and H type 2gig cards.
Unzip the file
Run the program Ps0AV44m.exe that is extracted from that zip file (for V1.0D)
You get "User ISP Update Data Dialog" with some info, click OK as per figure
below.
Then you get the "USB Device Upgrade F/W" window below, tick the
ISP_ENA box, then click the Win9xISP button
as shown on the figure below and a progress window briefly shows that
some action is happening. There is no Win2000/XP box as yet,
but trust me, I did this on my Win2000 system at first and it worked OK
and equally
it does work OK on WinXP as this latest set of screens was with WinXP.
Before (shows Inq Revision at V1.0C )
Now the progress screen appears briefly....
And then it ends up like above...... so then
close the window.
Dismount the VP6210 via the green arrow thingy at the bottom right of your desktop (that's for Win2000
and WinXP).
When Windows says it is OK to disconnect the device, then disconnect the USB cable and then
press the VP6210 Reset button near the AC
power adapter input and the unit powers down. Need a toothpick or ball-point pen
to do that.
Power it up again and plug it in and Windows now discovers that you
have connected a new device type of VP6210 and goes through its own
internal new installation stuff.
Wait a couple of minutes for that to settle down.
If you now run the program Ps0AV44m.exe again after the upgrade you should get this...
Press OK to first screen and now get this...
The line Inq Revision shows the new version number V1.0D of the firmware just loaded and now SDHC and large xD M and H type cards can be read.
[information and gif
file are from Vosonic pdf update notice]