MagnaTran 7.1 User’s Manual
Maintenance and Repair
MN-003-1600-00
Firmware Upgrade
Brooks Automation
Revision 2.2
9-83
Firmware Upgrade
Brooks Automation provides upgrades for the MagnaTran 70/77 firmware which can
be downloaded on-line. The upgraded firmware will contain all of the latest com-
mands, new revisions, version label and build dated embedded in the software.
Tools
•
Personal Computer (PC), user provided
•
Serial Cable (see
Serial Communication SIO1 on page 5-5
)
Remote Software Update Procedure
Call Brooks Automation Technical Support for access to downloading the firmware
upgrade and additional instructions on setting up the PC, the robot and transmis-
sions.
The following procedure explains the correct usage of REMOTE.EXE to perform the
software update. Section ‘File Lists’ lists the files that should reside on the Disk-On-
Chip storage device on the robot for each software release version. The second section
lists the procedure for performing the software update.
File Lists
The file names in italics are created and managed by the robot.
The file
ERR_LOG.BIN underlined in the V2.1x and V2.2x columns is resident on the robot
only if it was upgraded from V2.1x or earlier. Files that you might see that should be
deleted are A1.BAT, C1.SYS, H1.SYS and R1.EXE - these are created during the auto
download process, and then later deleted, unless an error occurs.
Table 9-6: Resident Files
V2.0x and earlier
V2.1x and later
V2.2x and later
AUTOEXEC.BAT
AUTOEXEC.BAT
AUTOEXEC.BAT
CONFIG.SYS
CONFIG.SYS
CONFIG.SYS
HIMEM.SYS
HIMEM.SYS
HIMEM.SYS
COMMAND.COM
COMMAND.COM
COMMAND.COM
SIM.VGA
SIM.VGA
SIM.VGA