Request for CS MK2 firmware image 060

[Flashlab]

I requested this before but the project kind of failed; however I contacted the author of the software and he's looking to make a restore tool for firmware images!

So here goes!:

Does anyone have an image of his/her Cyberstorm MK2 board for me? I have used the unofficial firmware you can find on this site:

http://www.smartos.net/~csc/downloads.html

In the archive MKxDiag 40.8 you can find the firmware but also a backup tool. Problem is there's no restore tool to flash your card back!

Could an owner of a CS MK2 060 with the original firmware please make an image of his/her board and send it to me at flashlab@hotmail.com ?

I'll send the image to the author of the unofficial firmware so he can make the restore tool. Maybe we could even upload that to aminet??
 

[Flashlab]

That's why I put in the maybe!  :lol:

[Flashlab]

I am not referring to the part of the firmware for SCSI. Those were available for download. I need an image for the whole firmware.

[Flashlab]

True, there was never an official firmware update for CS MK2 from Phase 5. Only the unofficial one on the website I mentioned earlier. Problem is that there's no tool to flash it back...

It is not true that the firmware on the CS MK2 is there only for the SCSI part. In the firmware are the boot screen (rainbow colours) and other stuff as well. When you use the the unofficial firmware the boot screen is replced with an audio sample for example. Also in the readme for the unofficial readme it syas it patches some functions of the original firmware.

The reason I want to have my original firmware back is because I suspect that I get 060 freezes in my system with some apps (like ShapeShifter). Maybe the firmware doesn't like some 68060 libs.

The goal is that there can be a tool to flash the firmware back to original. That way people have a choice; they can try the unofficial firmware and flash it back when they need or want to.

I don't know if there's any difference in the firmware for 040 or 060 though. So that's why I ask for an image of an CS MK2 060. Just to be sure!

So if anyone has an image of the original firmware that would be great!

[Flashlab]

I don't know...

I'll ask the author of the unofficial firmware; maybe he knows?

[Flashlab]

@Doobrey

Yeah I asked for that image then! I sent your image to the author of the unofficial firmware. I don't know if there's a difference between 040 and 060 firmware though...

[Flashlab]

I see your point about the libs. Relax! ;-)

Only thing I don't get about your post is that you say that the firmware has no function at all. Why would the unofficial firmware be made at all then? It says in the docs that is does patch ExecExtension!!

Anyway the only problems I get with ShapShifter anyway, but they annoy me frustratingly much!

[Flashlab]

@Kin-Hell

I'm a believer in if it ain't broke don't fix it too (now more than before;-)), but alas I'm also a bit too curious... so I did flash my CS...

Anyway maybe it doesn't have any influence on my ShapeShifter freezes, but the thought that it MAY bugs me. And the fact that I'm not able to test it with the original firmware is annoying because that's one of the last things I have on my possibilities list.

If you're interested what my problems are with ShapeShifter you can read that here:
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=21005

[Flashlab]

Yep... ;-)