Re: [avrdude-dev] Device signture not observed

[Jan-Hinnerk Reichert]

On Wednesday 26 November 2003 02:12, Theodore A. Roth wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Brian Dean wrote:
> > While this feature could certainly be added, it's never been a
> > high priority and, for me at least, I would consider this to be
> > in the "bells and whistles" category.  If it was added, then -p
> > option would become redundent or at least maybe made optional.
>
> Actually, I think you'd still need the -p option for the stk500.
> You have to tell avrdude the target device if you are using the
> stk500 since it needs to send down some device info before it can
> read the device id.
>
> I've tried to get around this with uisp, but didn't have any luck.

Have you tried just sending any valid device-id and then reading the 
signature?

This trick definetly works with avr910, since it is not aware of 
signatures. The only problem is this weird AT90S1200-stuff :-(((

/Jan-Hinnerk