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<blockquote data-quote="Riley Casey" data-source="post: 3317" data-attributes="member: 125">The BSS user form seems to be on strike at the moment so I&#039;m going to post this of the reservation for anyone who might have some experience.I have recently acquired a couple of FDS355s and an FDS388.&nbsp; In poking at them I discovered that one had older firmware than the other and set about to update it.&nbsp; I inquired on the forum about the firmware updater and received a very polite pointer to the file off line from the forum.&nbsp; I hooked up the serial port to my USB to Serial port adaptor ( which works quite well with our 336 &amp; 366 units ), fired up my copy of Windows XP within Parrallels on my Mac, opened the firmware updater file and proceeded to apparently change the firmware to the current version. The software progress bar progressed, the dialog box said all was good, the expected responses.Then I saw the post that I pasted below.&nbsp; ( a locked post thus the cut and paste job )In light of the note about Soundbench not seeing the serial port in any OS greater than Win 98 have I hosed the firmware in this 355 or does that not apply to the firmware update software - or has the virtual machine software some how magically end run the serial port access issue?&gt;&gt; Dan Lynch ( BSS forum guy ) wrote ...&quot;That&#039;s pretty funny, actually. Since you&#039;re talking about a 355, you won&#039;t have any trouble finding a laptop with a serial connection because you don&#039;t want a new one. The only way to control a 355 from a laptop is to run Soundbench (info here - download here) which will only work on Windows 3.11, 95, or 98! Since you&#039;re a mac user, you can probably find a Win98 emulator somewhere. PC users can download Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 for free and install Win98 on that. Configuring the network settings on 98 can be a pain in the neck, so I just keep my old Toshiba Satellite sitting here with Win98 on it. Dan Note: Before everyone emails me about it; yes, I am aware that you can run Soundbench under Windows NT, 2000, XP, etc. If all you care about is launching it and admiring the sexy GUI, go for it. On the other hand, if you want to actually communicate with a 355, you&#039;re going to have to run 3.11, 95, or 98 so Soundbench can see the serial port.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Riley Casey, post: 3317, member: 125"] The BSS user form seems to be on strike at the moment so I'm going to post this of the reservation for anyone who might have some experience. I have recently acquired a couple of FDS355s and an FDS388. In poking at them I discovered that one had older firmware than the other and set about to update it. I inquired on the forum about the firmware updater and received a very polite pointer to the file off line from the forum. I hooked up the serial port to my USB to Serial port adaptor ( which works quite well with our 336 & 366 units ), fired up my copy of Windows XP within Parrallels on my Mac, opened the firmware updater file and proceeded to apparently change the firmware to the current version. The software progress bar progressed, the dialog box said all was good, the expected responses. Then I saw the post that I pasted below. ( a locked post thus the cut and paste job ) In light of the note about Soundbench not seeing the serial port in any OS greater than Win 98 have I hosed the firmware in this 355 or does that not apply to the firmware update software - or has the virtual machine software some how magically end run the serial port access issue? >> Dan Lynch ( BSS forum guy ) wrote ... "That's pretty funny, actually. Since you're talking about a 355, you won't have any trouble finding a laptop with a serial connection because you don't want a new one. The only way to control a 355 from a laptop is to run Soundbench (info here - download here) which will only work on Windows 3.11, 95, or 98! Since you're a mac user, you can probably find a Win98 emulator somewhere. PC users can download Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 for free and install Win98 on that. Configuring the network settings on 98 can be a pain in the neck, so I just keep my old Toshiba Satellite sitting here with Win98 on it. Dan Note: Before everyone emails me about it; yes, I am aware that you can run Soundbench under Windows NT, 2000, XP, etc. If all you care about is launching it and admiring the sexy GUI, go for it. On the other hand, if you want to actually communicate with a 355, you're going to have to run 3.11, 95, or 98 so Soundbench can see the serial port. [/QUOTE]

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