[flashrom] flashing MX25L3205DM2I-12G

Pupic P. ladypupic at gmail.com
Wed Oct 31 14:40:02 CET 2012


Hi everyone,

I have a MacBook Pro (13" mid-2009) who, I think, suffers from a bad
firmware flash : from nowhere, or after an update, it makes 9 beeps when
powered on (3 short, 3 long, 3 short) and nothing else. I have found
references from similar cases when people seemed to have recovered by
rewriting a good firmware with flashrom and buspirate (
http://ho.ax/tag/firmware/).
On my machine I have :
- a chip labelled MX25L3205DM2I-12G
- buspirate 3.6 (v3b, firmware 5.10)
- flashrom v0.9.6.1-r1620
- hooked (while the chip still on the motherboard (no power, battery out))
: pin1->CS, pin2->MISO, pin4->GND, pin5->MOSI, pin6->CLK, pin8->3.3v

* Pins 3,7 not connected.
* I also tried pins 3,7,8 together with the same result.

What I get is flashrom ending with :
Probing for Generic unknown SPI chip (RDID), 0 kB: RDID byte 0 parity
violation. probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0x00, id2 0x00
Found Generic flash chip "unknown SPI chip (RDID)" (0 kB, SPI) on
buspirate_spi.
Probing for Generic unknown SPI chip (REMS), 0 kB: probe_spi_rems: id1 0x0,
id2 0x0
Found Generic flash chip "unknown SPI chip (RDID)" (0 kB, SPI).

Any idea why?

Thanks.
Mario.
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