I used the flashrom with SB ICH9R and flash chip SST SST25VF016B, and

the descriptor mode is activated. The software version is flashrom-0.9.1

and pciutils-3.1.4. I failed to flash the BIOS. Please refer to the messages:

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DiskStation> ./flashrom -E

flashrom v0.9.1-r710

No coreboot table found.

Found chipset "Intel ICH9R", enabling flash write... OK.

This chipset supports the following protocols: LPC,FWH,SPI.

Calibrating delay loop... OK.

Found chip "SST SST25VF016B" (2048 KB, SPI) at physical address 0xffe00000.

Erasing flash chip... ERASE FAILED at 0x00000000! Expected=0xff, Read=0x4c, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x001fffff: 0x3000

ERASE FAILED!

FAILED!

ERROR at 0x00000000: Expected=0xff, Read=0x00

Your flash chip is in an unknown state.

Get help on IRC at irc.freenode.net channel #flashrom or

mail flashrom@flashrom.org

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DO NOT REBOOT OR POWEROFF!

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BTW, please find the "flashrom -E -V" messages in the attachment.

Do you know how to solve this problem ? Thanks for your help.

Eugene