On Wed, 7 Aug 2013 17:07:47 +0200 Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:

We are more verbose inside erase_and_write_flash() although it does not matter as much as here - at the end of the process.

New output for the non-fatal (i.e. read-protected + successful read) case:

Reading old flash chip contents... done. Erasing and writing flash chip... spi_block_erase_d8 failed during command execution at address 0x8000 Reading current flash chip contents... done. spi_chip_erase_c7 failed during command execution FAILED! Uh oh. Erase/write failed. Checking if anything has changed. Reading current flash chip contents... done. Good. Writing to the flash chip apparently didn't do anything. Please check the connections (especially those to write protection pins) between the programmer and the flash chip. If you think the error is caused by flashrom please report this on IRC at chat.freenode.net (channel #flashrom) or mail flashrom@flashrom.org, thanks!

Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@student.tuwien.ac.at>

Slightly refined, Acked-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at> and committed in r1790. -- Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner