FAILED: Winbond flash chip "W25Q256JW_DTR"

[reza adinepour]

Hi all,

when i programm internally, chip doesn't programm and bellow message show:
I try to disable WP using "--wp-disable" feature but it doesn't have effect
on programm flash.
thanks to help me.

flashrom v1.6.0-devel (git:v1.5.0-19-g971ea27d) on Linux
6.9.3-76060903-generic (x86_64)
flashrom is free software, get the source code at https://flashrom.org

Cannot open file stream for /dev/mtd0
coreboot table found at 0x659fb000.
Found chipset "Intel Meteor Lake-P/M".
Enabling flash write... Warning: Setting BIOS Control at 0xdc from 0x8b to
0x89 failed.
New value is 0x8b.
SPI Configuration is locked down.
FREG0: Flash Descriptor region (0x00000000-0x00003fff) is read-write.
FREG1: BIOS region (0x01000000-0x01ffffff) is read-write.
FREG2: Management Engine region (0x00006000-0x00a69fff) is read-write.
FREG3: Gigabit Ethernet region (0x00004000-0x00005fff) is read-write.
FREG9: Device Expansion 2 region (0x00a6a000-0x00ffffff) is read-write.
PR0: Warning: 0x01050000-0x01ffffff is read-only.
PR1: Warning: 0x01000000-0x0100ffff is read-only.
At least some flash regions are write protected. For write operations,
you should use a flash layout and include only writable regions. See
manpage for more details.
OK.
Found Winbond flash chip "W25Q256JW_DTR" (32768 kB, Programmer-specific) on
internal.
Disabled hardware protection
Reading old flash chip contents... done.
Updating flash chip contents... Transaction error between offset 0x01000000
and 0x01000000 (= 0x01000000 + 0)!
Erase/write done from 0 to 1ffffff
Write Failed!Uh oh. Erase/write failed. Checking if anything has changed.
Reading current flash chip contents... done.
Apparently at least some data has changed.
Your flash chip is in an unknown state.
Get help on IRC (see https://www.flashrom.org/Contact) or mail
[e-mail] with the subject "FAILED: <your board
name>"!-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DO NOT REBOOT OR POWEROFF!

[Anastasia Klimchuk]

Hello reza,

What is the exact command you are running?

Also note there is a message in the logs you copied:
> At least some flash regions are write protected. For write operations,
> you should use a flash layout and include only writable regions. See
> manpage for more details.

On Sat, Mar 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM reza adinepour  wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> when i programm internally, chip doesn't programm and bellow message show:
> I try to disable WP using "--wp-disable" feature but it doesn't have effect on programm flash.
> thanks to help me.
>
> flashrom v1.6.0-devel (git:v1.5.0-19-g971ea27d) on Linux 6.9.3-76060903-generic (x86_64)
> flashrom is free software, get the source code at https://flashrom.org
>
> Cannot open file stream for /dev/mtd0
> coreboot table found at 0x659fb000.
> Found chipset "Intel Meteor Lake-P/M".
> Enabling flash write... Warning: Setting BIOS Control at 0xdc from 0x8b to 0x89 failed.
> New value is 0x8b.
> SPI Configuration is locked down.
> FREG0: Flash Descriptor region (0x00000000-0x00003fff) is read-write.
> FREG1: BIOS region (0x01000000-0x01ffffff) is read-write.
> FREG2: Management Engine region (0x00006000-0x00a69fff) is read-write.
> FREG3: Gigabit Ethernet region (0x00004000-0x00005fff) is read-write.
> FREG9: Device Expansion 2 region (0x00a6a000-0x00ffffff) is read-write.
> PR0: Warning: 0x01050000-0x01ffffff is read-only.
> PR1: Warning: 0x01000000-0x0100ffff is read-only.
> At least some flash regions are write protected. For write operations,
> you should use a flash layout and include only writable regions. See
> manpage for more details.
> OK.
> Found Winbond flash chip "W25Q256JW_DTR" (32768 kB, Programmer-specific) on internal.
> Disabled hardware protection
> Reading old flash chip contents... done.
> Updating flash chip contents... Transaction error between offset 0x01000000 and 0x01000000 (= 0x01000000 + 0)!
> Erase/write done from 0 to 1ffffff
> Write Failed!Uh oh. Erase/write failed. Checking if anything has changed.
> Reading current flash chip contents... done.
> Apparently at least some data has changed.
> Your flash chip is in an unknown state.
> Get help on IRC (see https://www.flashrom.org/Contact) or mail
> [e-mail] with the subject "FAILED: <your board name>"!-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> DO NOT REBOOT OR POWEROFF!
>
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