So I have a bunch of these Argon M.2 cases. I ordered one from Amazon and 5 from BuyAPi.ca and the firmware versions are interesting. I am using the tool mentioned elsewhere to read (and potentially update) the firmware version. The one from Amazon has firmware version 141126a11d80 (or formatted as elsewhere: 141126_A1_1D_80 .) Three of the other five also have this version. All of the four report the same S/N 0000000000E3 . The other two have the old firmware mentioned above 140704_A1_00_00 and S/N 0000000000B6 .
This clearly tells me that the S/N is not actually a serial number in the sense that whoever is programming or loading the firmware is not using the tool to increase the serial number for each unit they program. (Or maybe the tool is buggy, who knows.) I haven't yet investigated the features of the newer firmware version, which is different to the one listed above (being 141126_A1_EE_82 .) I do wonder if the EE_82 is a checksum, or a version number or feature map or what. EE_82 is clearly higher than 1D_80, so may still be worth updating, but I would like to figure out how to backup the 1D_80 firmware first. (I see mention of a tool for this ( https://github.com/smx-smx/ASMTool ), which I will have to try and get working.) One other piece of info for those of you wondering about the fan. There is a jumper on the top of the case (where the RPi is mounted, it's visible on the lower board in the one corner that is exposed (the writing on the board says 1-2 DEFAULT and 2-3 ALWAYS ON and its near the text IR_OUT). If you change this jumper from the initial [1-2] setting to [2-3] it will "disable" the power button (meaning when you apply power, the RPi will boot without you needing to press the power button), but it also will automatically enable the fan, without the need to run the Argon software. I don't know if turns the fan to 100% or not... it's audible to me, but not so loud as to be distracting. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PlaceHolder's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=31101 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=113575 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
