On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 23:54:15 +0530 narayanan best <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I have Intel ICH9 with 2 SPI flash chips each with 8MB. I am able to read > 16MB of flash chip with hardware sequencing. > But while writing the image i get > ERASE FAILED at 0x00100000! Expected=0xff , Read=0x44, failed byte count > from 0x00100000-0x0010ffff:0xfef4 > ERASE FAILED > > I believe the cause is due to hardware sequencing write does not disable > SRPL (sector protection register lock). I used -p > internal:ich_spi_force=yes option which didn't help. > > This was confirmed when i gave ich_spi_mode=swseq (read or write) as > parameter, it disables the SRPL and next write of 16MB with hardware > sequencing succeeded. > > Let me know if i am missing anything here. > > Thanks in advance. hi and thanks for your report! i dont have time right now to look at it, but it would be great if you could send a log of flashrom's output with the verbose flags "-VV" added to your write command line (especially the one with hwseq forced, both would be best). -- Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner _______________________________________________ flashrom mailing list [email protected] http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom
