DTL-T10000 (Non H) REFURBISHED

Welcome!

Unfortunately, as it is a piece of homebrew software, it won't (easily) run on a TOOL. On a TOOL, the flash ROM version is meant to match the SDK version that you are using. As CEX consoles have a ROM like the one from the DEX, which SCE documented as being roughly v1.3.4, our SDK is roughly around that version.

At some point, they added an IBOOTP option for the DebugStation mode (which will load some modules from rom0:OLDROM instead), but that is only applied if the software reboots the IOP with rom0:UDNL (which my software doesn't do). I guess that they designed it that way because no known software (outside of SCE) was built with the exact same SDK version as the BOOT ROM... so rom0:UDNL would always be used.

At first, we used to be able to switch the WS mode switch to get the v1.00 ROM. But ever since I added the kernel update to the SDK, that hasn't worked well because the TOOL's early kernel does not have the region at 0x80030000 freed up. :/

So what I do for homebrew development, is to disable the IOP reset within the software itself, load rom0:UDNL from dsidb before booting the software being debugged. It is a hack, but it gets rid of the kernel incompatibilities and allows dsedb to keep debugging information loaded (dsedb will discard debugging information upon every system reset).

 

Also, is there a way to tell if the laser is dead, as i cannot boot several (Retail disc) games, i do the usual dsedb -r (I've set the path so i omit ./ of course) followed by enter/return by reset 2 100 with the PC outputting EE DECI2 Manager with the version build date? CPUID, BoardID, ROMGEN and system ram for the PS2 side? and nothing after that from the PC or PS2 side, also to note the TOOL screen showing all the info about the system does show when the system is initially booted (PS2 side viewed via RCA Composite)

 

What is the flash ROM's version? The ability to boot discs directly was added later on.

 

Are you after "EE DECI2 Manager version 0.06 DEC 10 1999 17:48:37"? In reference to the ROM version?

If that was what you were after and the rom is indeed too old (With what i assume is date of build/compilation mentioned, I'm going to assume it probably is), Is it possible the get an image from another DTL-T10000 (Whole HDD backup) with a newer rom (Or is it truly read only memory in hardware that is the cause or just outdated software?) version that does support disc booting?

 

You need to look at the ROMGEN date as well. The filename (if it is visible) suggests the flash version as well.
I guess that the year of 1999 suggests that this is v1.00, so is your WS/TOOL mode switch set to TOOL mode?

It can be updated and has nothing to do with the HDD. But before you do that, please ensure that this is TOOL mode that we are talking about (WS mode is only used as a fail-safe).

 

The WS/TOOL switch is in TOOL mode (Up position)

I'll grab the romgen build/file date too when i get a sec (currently away from the tool for a bit) if it's still necessary, is in the same dir as dsedb etc?

 

It is not a file, but part of the reset message.

 

Forgive me, the previous post you made implied it was a file, my bad, as you can tell, I'm new to the TOOL scene.

The version data i mention above is part of the reset message i believe, as i get that infornation by resetting the PS2 side from the PC side.

 

Yes, it's part of that message. It's something like this one:

So if yours is also 2000-0117, that would be the oldest known ROM version. The new ROM image, flashing tool and documentation on how to do that, can be obtained from the SCE PS2SDK.

 

Here's the entirety of the message after resetting the PS2 module of the TOOL.

EE DECI2 Manager version 0.06 DEC 10 1999 17:48:37
CPUID=2e14, BoardID=4126, ROMGEN=2000-0117, 128M

So yes, that appears to be the case (Old ROM version) I've got the 3.03 SDK on hand, what directory is the tool located in, i should be fine with reading the documentation from SONY to get it done (Hopefully)

 

The README (setup2.txt) is in 1st_read. The tool is in bin and the ROM image is t10000-rel300.bin.

 

Okay, I've got the idea on how to flash the firmware (dsflash t10000-rel300.bin) however i can't figure out a way to physically get the file onto the TOOL's HDD, I can't connect VIA SSH (PuTTY) nor SCP or FTP. Do you know what file transfer protocols the TOOL supports out of the box?

 

According to LemonHaze, it responds to Telnet.

 

Yep, managed to login via telnet after messing with some security config files, but afaik telnet doesn't support file transfers easily, and a 10 year old distro of Red Hat lacks so many protocols mentioned above to allow for file transfer, or even support of downloading files from a server on my lan, if you have any ideas or something i missed let me know, I'm almost there.

 

Or you could set up a Linux installation on your PC and use the SCE tools from there. That was how it was meant to be.

 

If you're feeling adventurous (and have Win10 pro) you could install Docker for Windows and use my pre-configured environment to run the tools.