Media Technology Systems STAGE 8.8 - Manual (Page 19)

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5 Firmware
The Cobranet firmware is updated using the free utility (Cobranet Discovery) from
Cirrus Logic – see Figure 5-1 below.
Figure 5-1: Cobranet Discovery showing 2.11.9 firmware
After loading the CNDISCO application, Advanced features will need to be enabled.
Enabling advanced features in CNDISCO allows you to put any version of firmware on
any hardware‐compatible Cobranet module you wish. CNDISCO needs to have the
particular firmware version of a device in its firmware directory in order to properly
identify the device for compatible firmware upgrades. Should the situation arise where
you know the device is a specific model but CNDISCO says there are no compatible
firmware upgrades, using the advanced feature, you'll be able to update the firmware
anyway.
How to enable the advanced feature: Firstly, open cndisco.ini in Notepad. Its usually in
a directory like this: C:\Program Files\Peak Audio\CobraNet Discovery. Then find the
Configuration section. It usually looks something like this:
[Configuration]
Adapter Index=[10] [10] Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx Gigabit Controller
Firmware Location=C:\Program Files\Peak Audio\CobraNet Discovery\firmware
Start a new line after one of the lines in that section and type in Advanced Feature=1. It
should look something like this when you're done:
[Configuration]
Adapter Index=[10] [10] Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx Gigabit Controller
Firmware Location=C:\Program Files\Peak Audio\CobraNet Discovery\firmware
Advanced Feature=1
Save the file and exit Notepad. The advanced feature is now enabled.
Now save the MTS cobranet binary file “MTS_2_11_xx.bin” to the Firmware folder and
use CNDISCO to upload the firmware. Please ensure that you ONLY use the MTS binary,
otherwise it will be lacking the amplifier specific controls needed for the correct
operation of the product..