[avrdude-dev] Programmer is not responding

[Henrik Brix Andersen]

Hi,

I have recently acquired an Atmel STK500 development board, but I am
having problems getting it working with avrdude under Linux. The board
works with AVR Studio 4 on Microsoft Windows XP.

I have had it working with avrdude (erase only) a couple of times, but
>90% of the times I try, it fails with the following error message:

        address@hidden ~ $ avrdude -c stk500 -p m16 -P /dev/ttyUSB0 -v -v -e
        
        avrdude: Version 5.0-BETA
                 Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean, http://www.bdmicro.com/
        
                 System wide configuration file is "/etc/avrdude.conf"
                 User configuration file is "/home/brix/.avrduderc"
                 User configuration file does not exist or is not a regular 
file, skipping
        
                 Using Port            : /dev/ttyUSB0
                 Using Programmer      : stk500
        avrdude: serial_recv(): programmer is not responding
        avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding

I have also tried the "avrisp" programmer type. I have tried both
avrdude-4.4.0, avrdude-5.0-BETA and current CVS, same results. I have
used AVR Studio 4 to upgrade the firmware of the STK500 to V2, same
results.

AVR Studio 4 identifies the board as:

  STK500 with V2 firmware found on COM7:
  Getting revisions.. HW: 0x02, SW Major: 0x02, SW Minor: 0x00 .. OK

It is connected to the host PC through a PL-2303 USB-to-RS232 converter.

This is the output of one of the few times I've had it working:

        address@hidden ~ $ avrdude -c avrisp -p m16 -P /dev/ttyUSB0 -v -v -e
        
        avrdude: Version 4.4.0
                 Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Brian Dean, address@hidden
        
                 System wide configuration file is "/etc/avrdude.conf"
                 User configuration file is "/home/brix/.avrduderc"
                 User configuration file does not exist or is not a regular 
file, skipping
        
                 Using Port            : /dev/ttyUSB0
                 Using Programmer      : avrisp
                 AVR Part              : ATMEGA16
                 Chip Erase delay      : 9000 us
                 PAGEL                 : PD7
                 BS2                   : PA0
                 RESET disposition     : dedicated
                 RETRY pulse           : SCK
                 serial program mode   : yes
                 parallel program mode : yes
                 Memory Detail         :
        
                                             Page                       Polled
                   Memory Type Paged  Size   Size #Pages MinW  MaxW   ReadBack
                   ----------- ------ ------ ---- ------ ----- ----- ---------
                   eeprom      no        512    0     0  9000  9000 0xff 0xff
                   flash       yes     16384  128   128  4500  4500 0xff 0xff
                   lock        no          1    0     0     0     0 0x00 0x00
                   lfuse       no          1    0     0     0     0 0x00 0x00
                   hfuse       no          1    0     0     0     0 0x00 0x00
                   signature   no          3    0     0     0     0 0x00 0x00
        
                 Programmer Type : STK500
                 Description     : Atmel AVR ISP
                 Hardware Version: 2
                 Firmware Version: 1.15
                 Vtarget         : 5.1 V
                 Varef           : 5.0 V
                 Oscillator      : 3.686 MHz
                 SCK period      : 1.1 us
        
        avrdude: AVR device initialized and ready to accept instructions
        
        Reading | ################################################## | 100% 
0.01s
        
        avrdude: Device signature = 0x1e9403
        avrdude: erasing chip
        
        avrdude done.  Thank you.

Does anybody have an idea to what might be wrong?

Sincerely,
Brix
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Henrik Brix Andersen <address@hidden>
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