Re: [avrdude-dev] Eratic Mega168 behavior?

[Colin O'Flynn]

Hey,

> Since the start up verification failed there seemed to be no way to get
> into the terminal mode to issue the command to make it go
> slower.  A Chick&Egg problem. 

You can disable safemode with the "-u" option, safemode fuse support was 
stopping programming mode for being entered:

>avrdude: safemode: To protect your AVR the programming will be aborted

As well in current avrdude (CVS) the actual signature is checked, so you could 
disable that with "-F".

Regards,

 -Colin