Re: More: cromutil hangs when flashing 3C905C-TXM

[Greg Beeley <Greg.Beeley@LightSys.org>]

Hi,

Sorry for the late response to this, but I thought I should write....

> > > It is possible that the Atmel chip was already protected.  I think that
> > > particular chip has a feature that allows the programmer to optionally
> > > permanently write-protect the bootblock (can't be undone).  If that's 
>
> Well, I guess I should have taken more time to think before writing the
> last mail :-(

And I guess I should have taken a few minutes to think about the implications
of what I wrote about the Atmel being protected....  Steve has already said
on this list (maybe a year ago?) that the 3c905C-TXM boards don't have the chip
write-protected as described here.  3Com in general has been really pretty
good to work with in my opinion (when I originally wrote the 3c905b driver
for etherboot), and I really would feel bad about needlessly leading someone
to get annoyed with them...

Greg.

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