[flashrom] Bus Pirate + Flashrom

[Nabs]

Hi, i get the following error below when trying to read a bios chip, what options do i have for troubleshooting and what's causing the problem? Thanks Nabs

"flashrom -f -Vr bios.img.bin -p buspirate_spi:dev=/dev/tty8,spispeed=1M"
flashrom v0.9.5.2-r1517 on Linux 3.2.0-23-generic (x86_64), built with libpci 3.1.8, GCC 4.6.3, little endian
flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org

Calibrating delay loop... OS timer resolution is 1 usecs, 1372M loops per second, 10 myus = 10 us, 100 myus = 113 us, 1000 myus = 1036 us, 10000 myus = 10346 us, 4 myus = 6 us, OK.
Initializing buspirate_spi programmer
SPI speed is 1MHz

^[[BEntering raw bitbang mode failed!
Got 1c9ce050e0
Error: Programmer initialization failed.
^[[AEntering raw bitbang mode failed!
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