Re: [avrdude-dev] Device signture not observed

[Brian Dean]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 02:39:14AM +0100, Jan-Hinnerk Reichert wrote:

> A check certainly won't hurt, but I agree on the priority.
> 
> Well, the -p option will not become redundant as long as we want to 
> support the AT90S1200 ;-(((

Heh, the last AT90S1200 I had I flashed it well over 100,000 times
before it eventially gave up the ghost.  And that was before your PPI
speed up patch - it took several months of continuously flash, erase,
flash, erase ...

It started out as a FLASH durability experiment on a slow Friday
evening.  After automating the loop and timing a few cycles, I figured
I'd see a failure by morning based on the data sheet numbers.  After a
few weeks of flashing and no failures, it became personal :-) I even
had to pause at around 64,000 to modify AVRDUDE (back then it was
called AVRPROG) mid-way to support a read-write cycle count of more
than 16 bits :-)

-Brian