Hello Niels,

Thank you for the report!
I also saw when I was reading your first email, it says in the beginning that you did write successfully - but then a failed address in the logs :)

I think you are right that most likely the meaningful part of the image was before that failed address, so at the end what was written was working fine.

Maybe you know what was the size of the image, or rather what size of the meaningful part? Was there a padding at the end to fill in the full size of the chip? The error gives the first failed address 0x004935c0 which perhaps was in the padded area already.

Not much to do for this time, it's good that it all works!
For future, it might be useful to turn on verbose mode and then you get a lot more info in the logs. The options are -V, -VV, -VVV , these are progressively more verbose with more Vs. Sometimes there can be a connection error which is outside of flashrom.

On Thu, May 8, 2025 at 7:36 PM Niels Schapke - LapStore.de via flashrom <flashrom@flashrom.org> wrote:
I did spot this line after i send the E-Mail to you:

Verifying flash... FAILED at 0x004935c0! Expected=0x5b, Found=0x7f, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x01ffffff: 0xa30

However, the Unit is working after the flash (maybe there are valid data before at that adress)
 

Niels Schapke

Geprüfter Informationselektroniker mit Schwerpunkt Geräte- und Systemtechnik (KH-MS)

Ersatzteil-Einkauf / Reparatur | Lapstore GmbH
Niels Schapke - LapStore.de <niels.schapke@lapstore.de> hat am 06.05.2025 14:21 CEST geschrieben:
 
 
Dear Flashrom-Team,
 
today i could successfully write to a untested  MX77L25650F:
 
 
~/Transfer  flashrom -p ch341a_spi -w BIOS-PW_Dell-Optiplex-5090-Desktop-PC_LS3DWM8-1.bin                                                                                                             ✔ 
flashrom v1.5.1 (git:v1.5.1) on Linux 6.6.88-1-MANJARO (x86_64)
flashrom is free software, get the source code at https://flashrom.org
Found Macronix flash chip "MX77L25650F" (32768 kB, SPI) on ch341a_spi.
===
This flash part has status UNTESTED for operations: WP
The test status of this chip may have been updated in the latest development
version of flashrom. If you are running the latest development version,
please email a report to flashrom@flashrom.org if any of the above operations
work correctly for you with this flash chip. Please include the flashrom log
file for all operations you tested (see the man page for details), and mention
which mainboard or programmer you tested in the subject line.
You can also try to follow the instructions here:
https://www.flashrom.org/contrib_howtos/how_to_mark_chip_tested.html
Thanks for your help!
Reading old flash chip contents... done.
Updating flash chip contents... Erase/write done from 0 to 1ffffff
Verifying flash... FAILED at 0x004935c0! Expected=0x5b, Found=0x7f, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x01ffffff: 0xa30
Your flash chip is in an unknown state.
Please report this to the mailing list at flashrom@flashrom.org or
on IRC (see https://www.flashrom.org/Contact for details), thanks!


Niels Schapke

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