When aaronm released Blue Sky. I formatted USB 2.0 Flash Drive - 32GB SanDisk stick to Fat32, downloaded and opened the files to my desktop folder, extracted the files, dragged the ‘fpga1_239_BlueSky.bin’ and dropped it to USB drive, then E Drive extract safely done. USB stick in the rear of DS-2 and install same, it was all done in a matter of a few minutes.
I wanted to hear Ted’s magic against Mount Massive so to start with I forgo the UI code… I’ve found it very easy to update all of the firmware’s on the DS-2… The DS was a nightmare, a complete faff to upgrade any of the firmware.!
Hi,
I’m running a Mac with the latest OS. It can’t deal with the .bin files. Double clicking does not work. When I attempt to open them I get “unable to open (file name). It is in an unsupported format.”
I tried opening them with the archive utility, but that didn’t work either. I also tried installing the files as they are, but that didn’t work.
Suggestions? Thank you!
When I first tried to upgrade my DS1 it didn’t work. Fortunately info on this forum explained in order to do the current upgrade I first had to downgrade to Redhook, or whatever it was called. Updating the DS1 was never a sure thing. But it was always worth the effort. Amusing.
What you need to do is extract the files from the zip archive. As I recall, the Finder will show you what’s in a zip file and let you take items out of it. If you try to open a BIN file, you will indeed get the error message that you reported. Just copy the files onto the flash drive (and remember that you need to format it as FAT32 — the Mac instructions for this are around here someplace if you need them).
Thanks for replying!
Alas, the files are already on a FAT 32 flash drive. Neither the native Mac archive expander, nor the two aftermarket expanders I have tried will get the darn things to open, nor will they just install anyhow as .bin files (I tried this, carefully following the instructions, three times). The Mountaintop update was no problem, but this one is arguing. I’m beginning to suspect a corrupt file(s) and will try the whole dang thing again tomorrow. In the meantime Season’s Greetings …
I’m a little confused by this statement. Are you referring to the entire zip archive or specifically to the BIN files that you need?
If you put the zip archive on the flash drive, it’s possible that the Mac doesn’t like opening archives placed there. (I don’t know why it should do so but it may.) Did you try downloading the archive onto your Mac (downloads folder, desktop, someplace you can find it), opening that folder in the Finder, have it show you what’s in the archive, and then copy only the two files that you need onto the flash drive? Once the two BIN files are on the flash drive and it’s inserted into the DAC, the DAC will handle them – no need to open them anywhere.
Thank you. Yes, I have the two files on the flash drive, but thought I had to open them. Regardless, I did try to install them (the two files on the zip drive). It didn’t take. Tried three times … will try again tomorrow. If that doesn’t work, I’ll go back to square one and repeat everything in case I have a corrupt file.
One more comment then I promise to stop for tonight🙂.
You have probably seen the comments earlier in this thread about the fact that some people have success with smaller capacity flash drives (that often means older ones). I had success, the first time around, with a drive that’s at least 10 years old; I don’t recall the capacity, but it’s certainly much smaller than a lot of the ones people use today. And make sure that you have the two files in the root directory, not inside any folder. Theoretically you can have other things on the drive, but it is safest to have only the two BIN files that you need.
Could one of you guys just email @softlight64 the files he needs? He could just save the files from the email to a flash drive. I fully do not understand why they feel the need to compress these tiny files into one file.
Seriously, somebody just email him the files.
In fact, somebody just make the individual files available online and provide a link.
So much bother for so little gain.
I had no problem doing the update with an $8 64G drive I just purchased from Staples. I just set my computer queued to Aaron’s install video next to my Mk2 and played a step, paused the video, did the step, played the next step, and so on.
None of this makes me a genius, it’s just that at age 70, I’m finally getting a little bit better at following instructions…
Just to make sure you’re on the right track, if you have the two .bin files on the drive, some people have noted that they also needed the third “image.bin” to actually get the firmware to update. All you need to do is to put the .bin files on a FAT32 drive; you don’t want to open them and you couldn’t anyway because these are just binary files (hence the .bin suffix).
But it sounds like you aren’t having luck with updating either the firmware or the FPGA, which usually means you have an incompatible USB flash drive. These are very small files and your computer was able to automatically unzip them, so they are almost certainly not corrupt. What capacity is your flash drive? Based on my experience and others, most of the current flash drives with modern architectures don’t work. I use a trusty old 1 GB SanDisk flash drive that I bought some 20 years ago, but others have had luck with some of the cheaper no-name 8 GB drives you can get from Amazon. Scroll up to around post #308 for a link to one of them that is known to work.
Most excellent. Now you just have to make sure you are not using a larger the 32GB thumbdrive.
I think PS Audio should make the original files available without the zip nonsense. Or make it a self extracting zipfile at least. But it is 2024. ZIP is like FAX. (or landline)
You know, I have a Mac as well, and I just realized that one thing that might be throwing a lot of people off is that the OS likes to use a zip file icon for the .bin files, which is confusing.
I suggested unzipped files two years ago, this is what Paul said:
Thanks, Dan but the problem is if we don’t zip it there are a number of computers and email clients that will block it. If they see a folder they will not download.
