ah, ok thank you for explaining this to me. im kinda bummed out on this one, 
because i was hoping i had just found a 32mb chip lol.

On Nov 20 2019, at 12:48 am, David Hendricks <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Christopher,
> This means that Macronix reuses chip IDs for multiple chips with different 
> capabilities (hence why there are multiple chip entries). It's very 
> frustrating. I recommend avoiding Macronix and using a different flash chip 
> vendor if you can.
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 9:45 PM OMGdaDPS <[email protected] 
> (mailto:[email protected])> wrote:
> > I wouldalso like to report that i have found a few flash chips, that when 
> > read or attempted do perform any action on, it tells me that there are 
> > multiple chips found:
> >
> > `dps@vulcan:~$ sudo flashrom --programmer ch341a_spi -r backup.bin
> > flashrom on Linux 5.0.0-36-generic (x86_64)
> > flashrom is free software, get the source code at https://flashrom.org
> >
> > Using clock_gettime for delay loops (clk_id: 1, resolution: 1ns).
> > Found Macronix flash chip "MX25L6405" (8192 kB, SPI) on ch341a_spi.
> > Found Macronix flash chip "MX25L6405D" (8192 kB, SPI) on ch341a_spi.
> > Found Macronix flash chip "MX25L6406E/MX25L6408E" (8192 kB, SPI) on 
> > ch341a_spi.
> > Found Macronix flash chip 
> > "MX25L6436E/MX25L6445E/MX25L6465E/MX25L6473E/MX25L6473F" (8192 kB, SPI) on 
> > ch341a_spi.
> > Multiple flash chip definitions match the detected chip(s): "MX25L6405", 
> > "MX25L6405D", "MX25L6406E/MX25L6408E", 
> > "MX25L6436E/MX25L6445E/MX25L6465E/MX25L6473E/MX25L6473F"
> > Please specify which chip definition to use with the -c <chipname> option`
> >
> >
> > what does this mean?
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