Re: somebody has a japanese model?

On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 01:20:32AM -0500, David Biedenbach wrote:
> Sorry about the delay... I havent had so much free time the last couple 
> of days...

Don't worry about that.
 
> I'd like it if you could do this... I'm not sure which settings in 
> eeprom you'd be interested in..and according to the manual they're 
> mostly things like servo controls?

Yeah, we wouldn't want to touch that.  I will come up with something.
 
> Well, I tried 02 18 versions of some known 00 18 commands, and while 
> they all returned 0c, none of them actually executed, so I guess it's 
> fair to assume 02 18 is a "do you support x?" type command.  As far as 
> probing goes... (heh) I wrote a sort of brute force test that sends all 
> possible 02 18 commands of a certain length.  As can be expected, this 
> runs very slooooooooow.  We're talking an estimated 50 hours to run 
> through all commands of length 5-bytes. And of course, each additional 
> byte in length increases the execution time by 256 (hmmm.... 1.5 years 
> to test all 6-byte commands).  In the mean time, I'll try to think of a 
> smarter way to do this ;)

Now that I am actually reverse engineering, I don't think probing is useful
or necessary any more.

Thanks,
Marcus

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