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I recently had to order a 4MB MMC card from Siemens in order to upgrade my 317-2 DP CPU to V2.1.3 Firmware. The card arrived a couple of days ago and after downloading the 20+ MB Hotfix 3 for Step7 V5.2, (which was on the only PC we can run the prommer on, 'cause somebody's lost the prommer S/W!), from the Siemens website about five times before getting a copy that my various ZIP programs would accept (no error messages of any sort during the downloads), I downloaded the new firmware to the MMC, packed it in the slot in the CPU and powered up. Two minutes later I had an upgraded CPU.
So then I decided to copy my project to the new MMC - it had just outgrown the old 128kB card a few weeks before - and that kept me busy for a day and a half, before I decided that I probably hadn't suffered a dose of premature senile decay and sent an e-mail to Siemens before going off home. Barely back in the office this morning and the phone rings with the Siemens hotline on the other end. So I tell him the story, explaining everything I've tried, "The card's probably faulty" he says, not sounding very surprised. "But the firmware upgrade worked fine" I said. "Doesn't matter - email me the contents of the diagnostic buffer".
No sooner said than done. I had barely had enough time to move back from the Internet PC to the project PC before the phone rang - "Card's faulty, send it back."
I don't know whether this problem only affects the new range of MMC cards with the part number 6ES7 953-8Lx11-0AA0 (where "x" denotes the memory size) which also have the problem with Step7 V5.2. But the message is - if you have funny problems with a Siemens MMC card - don't waste your time trying to suss out what you're doing wrong, get straight onto the Siemens hotline. banghead
So then I decided to copy my project to the new MMC - it had just outgrown the old 128kB card a few weeks before - and that kept me busy for a day and a half, before I decided that I probably hadn't suffered a dose of premature senile decay and sent an e-mail to Siemens before going off home. Barely back in the office this morning and the phone rings with the Siemens hotline on the other end. So I tell him the story, explaining everything I've tried, "The card's probably faulty" he says, not sounding very surprised. "But the firmware upgrade worked fine" I said. "Doesn't matter - email me the contents of the diagnostic buffer".
No sooner said than done. I had barely had enough time to move back from the Internet PC to the project PC before the phone rang - "Card's faulty, send it back."
I don't know whether this problem only affects the new range of MMC cards with the part number 6ES7 953-8Lx11-0AA0 (where "x" denotes the memory size) which also have the problem with Step7 V5.2. But the message is - if you have funny problems with a Siemens MMC card - don't waste your time trying to suss out what you're doing wrong, get straight onto the Siemens hotline. banghead