Success report : WRITE for W29C020

[Pete Batard]

Hi,

Was advised to send a write report for this chip, so I tested all 
possible operations, using a W29C020-12 on a Freetech P6F91i 
motherboard, and everything works brilliantly. Logs attached.

By the way, even if this is a very old board, I'll just point out that 
if you ever want to convert a 1Mb BIOS P6F91i to a 2Mb BIOS one, you 
just need to place a jumper between pins 2 and 3 of JP1 to have the 
extra address line (being mindful that pin 1 of that jumper is 12V and 
must be left alone).

Regards,

/Pete

[Stefan Tauner]

On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:14:52 +0100
Pete Batard  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Was advised to send a write report for this chip, so I tested all 
> possible operations, using a W29C020-12 on a Freetech P6F91i 
> motherboard, and everything works brilliantly. Logs attached.

hi pete,

thanks for your report. i have marked the chip as fully tested and the
board as supported. i will commit that later.

ps: compressing logs is surely meant well, but does not do much good
imho. search engines dont (all) index them, greping through our
mailboxes would not find anything... please dont do it if there is no
good reason for it.

[Pete Batard]

On 18 June 2011 18:34, Stefan Tauner 
 wrote:
> thanks for your report. i have marked the chip as fully tested and the
> board as supported. i will commit that later.

Thanks again!
> ps: compressing logs is surely meant well, but does not do much good
> imho. search engines dont (all) index them

OK. I'm just used to posting to mailing lists where the size of 
attachment matters, and mail simply bounces back or requires moderator 
approval if they are too large.
Can you provide the maximum size for attachments on the flashrom mailing 
list? The only thing [1] mentions is that "big" mails will be held, but 
the maximum size isn't given.

Regards,

/Pete

[1] http://www.flashrom.org/Mailinglist

[Stefan Tauner]

On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:05:18 +0100
Pete Batard  wrote:
> On 18 June 2011 18:34, Stefan Tauner 
>  wrote:
> > ps: compressing logs is surely meant well, but does not do much good
> > imho. search engines dont (all) index them
>
> OK. I'm just used to posting to mailing lists where the size of 
> attachment matters, and mail simply bounces back or requires moderator 
> approval if they are too large.
> Can you provide the maximum size for attachments on the flashrom mailing 
> list? The only thing [1] mentions is that "big" mails will be held, but 
> the maximum size isn't given.
> [1] http://www.flashrom.org/Mailinglist

the limit is noted at http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom.
i have added the current limit (of 256 kB) to the wiki too.