On 12.03.2007 16:29, Ward Vandewege wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 11:22:12PM +0800, Anton wrote: >> What are the means for recovering from faulty writes into SPI >> flash-chip? Chip is not socketed ;) Moreover, it is soldered. > > De-solder the chip, and put a socket on it. Richard Smith helped me out with > that, we now have one m57sli-s4 board with a socket instead of the > soldered-on chip. Requires quite a bit of skill and some good equipment > though (heat-pencil or heat-gun and a good soldering iron).
Anton wrote about SPI (SOIC) flash, not LPC/FWH (PLCC32) flash. Are there really matching sockets out there? Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/ -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
