Re: [avrdude-dev] Programmer is not responding

[Henrik Brix Andersen]

On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 22:33 +0200, Joerg Wunsch wrote:
> Running it with -vvvv gives details about the communication.

Ah, thanks.

> My guess is that your PL2303 occasionally drops a character.
> Unfortunately, the current STK500 code (both v1 and v2) doesn't
> recover from that situation at all, i.e. it makes no retries.  It
> shouldn't be to hard to add retries though.  In the jtag2 code (which
> has partially been cloned from the stk500v2 code, as both low-level
> protocols are similar to some degree), I had to add retries as some of
> my tests have been run on a lossy PCI multiport card where my FreeBSD
> driver randomly catches a `silo overflow' which means that some
> character gets lost.

Ahem - who said "stk500v2"? ;)

It works just fine with -c stk500v2, sorry to have bothered you.

Regards,
Brix
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