[flashrom] Winbond W29EE011 erase works, probe fails

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Mon Jun 7 17:21:56 CEST 2010


On 07.06.2010 05:47, Guenter wrote:
> Am 07.06.2010 04:40, schrieb Guenter:
>> Am 07.06.2010 04:23, schrieb Guenter:
>>> find attached the patch for marking the Winbond W29EE011 as erase
>>> working, though probe didnt work for me.
> and now most crasy thing: I did swap the bios chip, and the original
> chip was detected as W29C011, but while I was testing with the
> W29EE011 with exactly same bios content (which I flashed before with
> an external programmer -> copy of content of the original chip) I
> removed the Award sticker, and behold: the chip which was probed as
> W29C011 is also labeled as W29EE011-15, exactly same as the replaced
> one!! So it seems like there are mislabeled chips out in the wild; I
> checked with Award's AFLASH which reported *both* chips as W29EE010 ...

Interesting. My datasheets say that the W29C011A and the W29EE011 have
identical IDs, and the W29C011A probe function seems to work only by
accident (it contradicts the datasheet).
By the way, our source tree defines W_29C011 and W_29EE011 to the same
value.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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