Re: Re: [Etherboot-developers] 3C905CX-TXM flashing with cromutil hangs

Donald Becker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.vortex.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 18 Apr 2003, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:

> anything wrong with this problem, that it doesn't concede an answer? 
> > vortex-diag.c:v2.09 9/18/2002 Donald Becker ([email protected])
> >  http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html
> > Index #1: Found a 3c905C Tornado 100baseTx adapter at 0xd800.
> > Hmmm, no response to the ID command, trying again..
> > ACKKK, this may not be a programmable Flash part!
> > Unknown BIOS ROM ID 55 AA.
..
> > http://support.3com.com/infodeli/tools/nic/mba.htm. Needless to say,
> > mbflash.exe from this package fails to detect this flash, too :-(.

This is a different style of flash part with variable sector sizes and a
new command structure.

I have updated libflash with code that may work with the new parts.
Who has a board with a AM29F002BT or AM29F002BB that could try it out?

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