[bobbyt14]

Originally Posted by keehun

I almost ripped my hair out.

Let me give you a first clue.

1. THIS IS NOT A HOT PLUG USB DRIVE.

Did you figure it out yet?

Solution: Plug in your USB Drive before powering up the Driver Station!!!

Also you have to name everything lower caps.

as I posted above, we plugged in the USB drive before powering up the DS (and tried a few times after powering up the DS, as the FIRST docs say to do). also (like I said above), most of the attempts to upload the firmware were with a version that was all in lower case, but the first docs seem to hint that case does not matter (since they say to use all caps in section 5.1, but use either all caps or all lower case in the troubleshooting section 3.1.9).

and no, I have not figured out the solution yet... my guess is that we have a defective DS, though (but I hope I'm wrong).

Originally Posted by tanmaker

This means that there are no other programs or files on the drive that open when you plug in the drive to a computer. I would say take a flash drive, copy everything off of it onto a computer, format it, place the firmware file on the drive, then plug it into the DS. See how that works for you.

We tried formatting drives to fat32 and fat16 and that proved to be no help. There were no other partitions on the drives, and the .bin file was the only file on the drives. I'm guessing that FIRST intended to say that we should only have one partition on the drive and that any drive with U3 should be incompatible... because just about any USB drive has an auto-load function for a driver (if it's hot-plug compatible on windows).

Originally Posted by Tom Line

Please note that if you are using windows and have the option turned on that hides file extensions, by naming the file ".bin", you've really named it ".bin.bin" since windows is hiding the file extension.

Find this options in the folder you're working in under tools -> folder options -> view -> hide extentions for known file types (should NOT have an X in it).

Also, by executable, they mean there should be nothing in the root directory of the USB drive except your file. Even better, just wipe the thumb-drive out and ONLY have that one file on it.

I'm not using windows... the file type used on all the drives we tested was exactly dsud_pkg.bin as I said. really, we just deleted all the extraneous parts of the name of the file when we downloaded it, which ends in dsud_pkg.bin