Good day,
following configuration:
- USB 3 PCI (not PCI-Express) card with RENESAS uPD720200A(Revision 4) USB chip and ATMEL AT25F512B (ATMEL 1138, 25F512B, SSH) rom chip in - IBM NetVista 8305 Desktop PC - built year 2003
The issue with the card is that it needs a flash rom update to work with Windows Vista and up, otherwise the device does not work at all in these OS ("device cannot start"). Windows XP with Renesas drivers and Linux Ubuntu 11.3 out of the box works fine.
RENESAS has a rom update for the chip and a flash update tool which however does not work with PCI cards, but just chips soldered to mainboards. At least this seems to me the reason why it does not work. Chip is recognized but the RENESAS tool says "Can not load / access firmware". The tool has the option to change the device / vendor id as well via .ini file.
The card used is the only PCI USB 3 card on the market and basically works very well when it works - with max PCI speed of course, which means approx. double speed of USB 2. The card exists in hardware version 1 (RENESAS chip uPD720200A) and 2 (RENESAS chip uPD720202). I do just have access to hardware version 1. The name of the manufacturer behind the card is unknown to me, but it could be an ADDONICS product. I do not have a technical drawing of the card and I fear I can not obtain one but I do have the card itself.
My question: would it be possible to incorporate this card into flashrom? Would be great if someone could do it as I do not have the necessary skills to do it myself.
In case you need further information, please let me know.
Thanks in advance, brgds Philipp
Links and further reading: --------------------------
Card Information from different sellers (same card): http://www.addonics.com/products/ad2u3pci.php http://eu.startech.com/Cards-Adapters/USB-3.0/Cards/2-Port-PCI-SuperSpeed-US B-3-Card-Adapter~PCIUSB3S2 http://www.lindy.de/premium-usb-3-karte-2-port-pci/51082.html
ATMEL rom specification (contains info how to write rom images): www.atmel.com/Images/doc3689.pdf
Renesas USB chip information: http://www.renesas.eu/products/soc/usb_assp/product/upd720200a/index.jsp
RENESAS rom update 4.0.2.0 with Windows updater (32 + 64 Bit) and drivers: http://www.station-drivers.com/page/renesas.htm We need: "Firmware Version 4.0.2.0 pour uPD720200a"
RENESAS MS DOS flash update tool (which did not do the job): http://www.computerbase.de/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=283282&d=13... 3319
IBM NetVista 8305 Hardware Maintenance Manual: http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/netvista_pdf/24p2969.pdf
Hardware Ids: Renesas Electronics USB 3.0 Host Controller: PCI\VEN_1033&DEV_0194&SUBSYS_01941033&REV_04\5&25043F3&0&0048F0
Renesas Electronics USB 3.0 Root Hub NUSB3\ROOT_HUB30\6&2D374EF3&2