On Thu, 2 Jun 2011 23:32:18 +0200 David Kiers dk@telcosystems.net wrote:
oops: dk@dk-AOA150:~$ flashrom -p buspirate_spi:dev=/dev/ttyUSB0, -V […] Probing for PMC unknown PMC SPI chip, 0 kB: RDID byte 0 parity violation. probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xff, id2 0xffff Probing for SST unknown SST SPI chip, 0 kB: RDID byte 0 parity violation. probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0x00, id2 0x00
assuming that the buspirate itself and flashrom work correctly, you get either "all 1s" or "all 0s" on the miso pin for the same command. this clearly indicates a hardware problem.