ah, ok thank you for explaining this to me. im kinda bummed out on this one, because i was hoping i had just found a 32mb chip lol.
On Nov 20 2019, at 12:48 am, David Hendricks david.hendricks@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Christopher, This means that Macronix reuses chip IDs for multiple chips with different capabilities (hence why there are multiple chip entries). It's very frustrating. I recommend avoiding Macronix and using a different flash chip vendor if you can.
On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 9:45 PM OMGdaDPS <christopherbwilliams1990@gmail.com (mailto:christopherbwilliams1990@gmail.com)> wrote:
I wouldalso like to report that i have found a few flash chips, that when read or attempted do perform any action on, it tells me that there are multiple chips found:
`dps@vulcan:~$ sudo flashrom --programmer ch341a_spi -r backup.bin flashrom on Linux 5.0.0-36-generic (x86_64) flashrom is free software, get the source code at https://flashrom.org
Using clock_gettime for delay loops (clk_id: 1, resolution: 1ns). Found Macronix flash chip "MX25L6405" (8192 kB, SPI) on ch341a_spi. Found Macronix flash chip "MX25L6405D" (8192 kB, SPI) on ch341a_spi. Found Macronix flash chip "MX25L6406E/MX25L6408E" (8192 kB, SPI) on ch341a_spi. Found Macronix flash chip "MX25L6436E/MX25L6445E/MX25L6465E/MX25L6473E/MX25L6473F" (8192 kB, SPI) on ch341a_spi. Multiple flash chip definitions match the detected chip(s): "MX25L6405", "MX25L6405D", "MX25L6406E/MX25L6408E", "MX25L6436E/MX25L6445E/MX25L6465E/MX25L6473E/MX25L6473F" Please specify which chip definition to use with the -c <chipname> option`
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