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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi I have 2 customers experiencing issues with Bulk erase with our
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Micron/Numonyx/ST
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">N25Q128..3E
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">2.700
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<p class="MsoNormal">What can I do to help get this situation looked at? I am working on getting board names is there any other information you need??<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">From IBM:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Found Micron/Numonyx/ST flash chip "N25Q128..3E" (16384 kB, SPI).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This chip may contain one-time programmable memory. flashrom cannot read<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and may never be able to write it, hence it may not be able to completely<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">clone the contents of this chip (see man page for details).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Write/erase is not working yet on your programmer in its current configuration.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Continuing anyway.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling coreboot-related checks.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Reading old flash chip contents... Transaction error!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">SSFS: SCIP=0, FDONE=1, FCERR=1, AEL=0<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">SSFC: SCGO=0, ACS=0, SPOP=0, COP=1, DBC=63, SME=0, SCF=0<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Running OPCODE 0x03 failed at address 0x001000 (payload length was 64).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">FAILED.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">From Ericson………<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">N25Q128A13ESF40F<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Send OPCODE 0xC7 to flash chip ask for bulk erase, sometimes it work, sometimes it stuck no response back.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Same experiment for Spansion flash works fine.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-----------------------<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Open source tool flashrom clear SRWD and BP0, BP1, BP2 and BP3 bits of Status Register prior to erase and write for sure.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Flashrom for "Micron/Numonyx/ST" go 4KB subsector erase in default. Enforce OPCOED 0xD8 performing 64KB erase
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<p class="MsoNormal">“bulk erase” is unstable, and SPI bus stuck in SCIP SPI Cycle in progress. If you have time, we can co-work debugging it about bulk erase bus cycle jam issue.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Found Micron/Numonyx/ST flash chip "N25Q128..3E" (16384 kB, SPI) mapped at physical address 0x00000000ff000000.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Reading old flash chip contents... done.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Erasing and writing flash chip... timeout, ICH9_REG_SSFS=0xf8007401<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">spi_chip_erase_c7 failed during command execution<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Reading current flash chip contents... Error: SCIP never cleared!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Can't read anymore! Aborting.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">FAILED!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Uh oh. Erase/write failed. Checking if anything has changed.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Reading current flash chip contents... Error: SCIP never cleared!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Can't even read anymore!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Your flash chip is in an unknown state.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Get help on IRC at chat.freenode.net (channel #flashrom) or<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">mail flashrom@flashrom.org with the subject "FAILED: <your board name>"!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Scott Emmart<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt">Micron Technology, Inc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt">Senior Manager | <a href="http://www.micron.com/solutions/global-customer-labs">
World Wide Customer Engineering Labs</a></span><span style="color:#1F497D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">T:</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> 208 368-3022 </span>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt">I </span> <span style="font-size:10.0pt">M:</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> 208 585-7337<span style="color:#BFBFBF"> I</span><span style="color:gray">
<a href="mailto:semmart@micron.com">semmart@micron.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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