[mythtv-users] firewire trouble on SA 4240HDC

[Shawn Flynn]

> From blake on April 21, 2008 1:51 PM
> I've seen this advice a lot and would like to report that it doesn't work 
> for me on my SA 4250HDC. To wit:
> 
> On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:35:07 -0700, Shawn Flynn <sflynn1 at rogers.com>
wrote:
> > * On the front of the 4250 while the 'envelope' icon is lit, press the 
> > 'info' button.
> 
> Here I have to press the "+" button.
> 
> > * You should now see a diagnostic screen overlayed on your video output.
> > * Press the 'left' or 'right' arrows on the front of the 4250 to cycle 
> > through the various pages of diagnostics.
> 
> Here I have to page down and page up.
> 
> > * Look for a field labelled 'EMI/CCI' on one of the pages. This is the 
> > 5C status of the channel and it will read as 'freely,' 'once,' or
'never.'
> 
> There are nine pages of info, none of them with this information. The one 
> page that has channel specific info doesn't > seem to include anything of 
> the sort.
> 
> I keep thinking that maybe there is another diagnostic screen I was
missing.
> 

I think you snipped out the relevant part of my original email, namely...

> > From Shawn Flynn on April 21, 2008 1:35 PM
> > There are two different software versions that can be run on the
> > 4250, SARA and Passport. Since I'm only familiar with the SARA software,
> > I'll give you the instructions for that and leave the Passport
instructions
> > as an exercise for the reader.

It sounds to me like your 4250 is running the Passport software.

Shawn Flynn