Hi list, I bought my Dragon fairly recently and it has not seen much use, and I did protect it with a nice little plastic box with rubber feet. So I don't think it's physically damaged. But, I notice that it is exxxxtremely slow at reading the contents of the target Flash memory.
I do mean VERY slow. I timed it at a full minute for one single kilo byte of data from Flash. Actually at first I thought either avrdude or the dragon, crashed, and I did cancel the transfer at first. But the status LED's on the dragon showed some activity, so I decided to wait and wait and wait, just in case it would actually manage to complete the transfer.. and it did. But one KB per minute is scarily (uselessly, at any rate) slow. What puzzles me is that if I do the transfer with my crappy DIY parallel cable, the same transfer takes zero time, it is blazing fast. So I don't know what's wrong: avrdude's terminal mode when using a Dragon rather than a // cable, or the Dragon itself which may have very poor firmware ? :-/ So if Dragon owners could share their experiences... could you time how long it takes for your Dragon to read one KB of data from Flash ? Does it take one minute like mine ? Or might this be a problem in the terminal mode of avrdude, rather than the Dragon ? Regards, -- Vince _______________________________________________ AVR-chat mailing list AVR-chat@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avr-chat
