Re: [flashrom] FAILED: AXIOMTEK PICO821 REV:A2-RC

[Stefan Tauner]

On Thu, 9 Feb 2012 16:51:13 +0100
"Recovery.se"  wrote:
> Hello
>
> I'm very pleased with flashrom! Hovever we have a problem erasing.
> I can work around it by running erase (flashrom -E) sevral times and
> then flash with (flashrom -w <rom>).
>
> When I run errase the falure posision moves forward
>
> ..
> "ERASE FAILED at 0x00030000!"
> "ERASE FAILED at 0x00040000!"
> "ERASE FAILED at 0x000ef000!"
> ...
>
> Regards
> Eric Eriksson
> Recovery.se

Hello Eric,

as far as i have been educated by my colleagues this is due to faulty
flash chips and we can't do much, but stupidly retry a few times if we
notice such a behavior. We may include such functionally sometime in
the future... until then i think you need to handle it as you already
did.