[flashrom] EN25Q128 (Thomson TG582n router) flash problem?

[Stefan Tauner]

On Sat, 12 Mar 2016 16:08:54 +0000
Adrian Graham <witchy at binarydinosaurs.co.uk> wrote:

> On 12/03/2016 15:46, "Stefan Tauner" <stefan.tauner at alumni.tuwien.ac.at>
> wrote:
> 
> 
> Ah, OK. In that case I don't know why it didn't finish writing then, unless
> my temporary connections between RasPi and flash moved a little bit or just
> aren't tight enough for a good signal. Cable length maybe - signal path is
> RasPi -> 40pin IDE cable -> hookup wires (15cm) soldered to the pads on the
> chip. Now that I've got more female-female jumper wires I can go direct to
> the Pi to shorten the distance drastically.

That makes a huge difference for the quality of the signals :)

> Currently I've got the flash hooked up to a parallel port on an old desktop
> so I can use SPIPGMW which has just dumped the whole 16mb to disk so I can
> try writing it back to see if it fails indicating a bad area in flash.

That will be quite slow, but in any case please report back with a
complete verbose log (-o write.txt creates one easily).

-- 
Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner