Fail to flash BIOS under ICH9R with descriptor mode

[eugenehsu]

Hi

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:

===========================

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 [e-mail]

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DO NOT
REBOOT OR POWEROFF!

===========================

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

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

Eugene

[Luc Verhaegen]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:06:47PM +0800, eugenehsu wrote:
> Hi
>
> 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:
>
> ===========================
>
> 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 [e-mail]
>
> DO NOT
> REBOOT OR POWEROFF!
>
> ===========================
>
> BTW, please find the
> "flashrom -E -V" messages in the attachment.
>
> Do you know how to solve
> this problem ? Thanks for your help.
>
> Eugene

We need at least:
- exact board make and model.
- lspci -vvnnxxx
before we can even try to investigate this.

Luc Verhaegen.