Post: ProgSkeet: Greatly Improves NOR Support
08-12-2011, 09:51 AM #1
forcer911
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This update as you can see from changelog notes below, is well worth it, as it might even bring some of the RSOD (red-screen-of-death) PS3's back to life, as it will detect and map out the bad sectors in the NOR flash, which is leading cause of this horrible boot-up failure on the later model PS3 consoles.

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110811

- NOR: Rewrote entire NOR driver. NAND is unmodified.
- NOR: Write-To-Buffer Programming method optimized (added timeout)
Note: not every device supports this. Please consult the datasheet if you are facing problems.
- NOR: Erase Sector optimized (added timeout)
- NOR: Forced verify and differential flash
- NOR: Can't enter values anymore, thanks to RAIDEN (if only some people could read...)

Note: Some NOR flash devices have bad sectors (usually just a few bytes, but enough for entire systems not to work). These will be reported in C:\ProgSkeet.log

If you have such a device (for example, I heard this happens with RSOD on PS3), you should relocate the sectors to somewhere else or replace the NOR flash device.

110811-A:
- NOR: Fixed fault in timeout of programming/erasing. Also increased it to 3.5seconds per line and per sector.

110811-B:
- NOR: Added wait on erase sector.

110811-C:
- Improved flashing speed

110811-Sad Awesome
- Added "tries" for flashing. It is currently hard-coded to 5 tries.

110812:
- Removed auto-detect NAND because some devices don't give the correct information
- Removed device combobox (for now, until xml configuration is correctly implemented)

110812-A:
- Bug fixed: 16 bytes on NAND2 when using Big Block (normal is 64 bytes) (thanks to dospiedras xD)

yours truly,

uf6667


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