[flashrom] Unknown state report

Stefan Tauner stefan.tauner at alumni.tuwien.ac.at
Tue Feb 10 08:24:12 CET 2015


On Mon, 9 Feb 2015 19:52:06 +0200
Kaloyan Mihaylov <kaloyan.mihaylov at gmail.com> wrote:

> flashrom.exe -p ft2232_spi:type=arm-usb-tiny-h -
> E
> flashrom v0.9.6.1-r1704 on Windows 6.1 (x86)
> flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org
> 
> Calibrating delay loop... OK.
> Found Winbond flash chip "W25Q64.V" (8192 kB, SPI) on ft2232_spi.
> Erasing and writing flash chip... FAILED at 0x00000000! Expected=0xff,
> Found=0xe
> 5, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x00000fff: 0x9ca
> ERASE FAILED!
> Reading current flash chip contents... done. FAILED at 0x00008000!
> Expected=0xff
> , Found=0x85, failed byte count from 0x00008000-0x0000ffff: 0x4bb9
> ERASE FAILED!
> Reading current flash chip contents... done. FAILED at 0x00008000!
> Expected=0xff
> , Found=0x85, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x0000ffff: 0x4cb2
> ERASE FAILED!
> Reading current flash chip contents... done. FAILED at 0x00050200!
> Expected=0xff
> , Found=0x00, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x007fffff: 0x30e
> ERASE FAILED!
> Reading current flash chip contents... done. FAILED at 0x002e9800!
> Expected=0xff
> , Found=0x00, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x007fffff: 0x700
> ERASE FAILED!
> FAILED!
> Your flash chip is in an unknown state.
> Please report this on IRC at chat.freenode.net (channel #flashrom) or
> mail flashrom at flashrom.org, thanks!

Hi, that looks like erasing worked only sometimes... well, most of the
times, but not always. Have you connected all pins of the flash chip?
Is it still connected to a board? In the latter case please see
http://flashrom.org/ISP for possible culprits.

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Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner




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