Re: [avrdude-dev] Problem with AVR Dragon and ATmega324p on OSX

[Armin Stranjak]

Dennis,

Thanks for your reply.

After I've spent some (too much!) time trying to get it working on  
Tiger, I've decided to update my Mac to Leopard (I was planning to do  
this for some time now and finally I found a reason :-) ) and after  
the update, everything works very well.

I found that other guys used to have similar problems where update to  
10.5 solved their issues (see http://www.mikrocontroller.net/topic/81210)

Anyway, after the update, avrdude works perfectly well.

Thanks,
Armin



On 15 Nov 2008, at 04:58, dlc wrote:

> I've had problems with AVR ISP2 on Tiger too.  I'll be able to  
> program a MEGA168 5,6 times or so and then... Avrdude hangs reading  
> the chip.  The writes don't work entirely either since the program  
> doesn't usually get fully written to the chip.  Then I unplug  
> everything, throw salt over my left shoulder with my right hand,  
> howl at the moon (or my computer) and every so often it will all  
> start working again, after half a day or so.  I've never been able  
> to figure out what is going wrong.  This does not happen with my  
> Leopard system.
>
> I'm running Tiger on a G4/1.3GHz iBook and Leopard on a 2.8GHz Core  
> 3 duo.  So this could be either a Tiger or an iBook USB problem.   
> I've never heard anyone else mention it.  Does everyone else suffer  
> in silence or are there actually so few of us running on Mac  
> platforms that the noise level is just low?
>
> In the end I use my AVRISP2 on my iMac and my AVR ISP through a  
> Keyspan USB/serial dongle on my iBook.  Those two configurations are  
> solid.
>
> DLC
>
> Armin Stranjak wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have installed the latest AVR MacPack - 20080721 (http://www.obdev.at/products/avrmacpack/download-de.html 
> > ) and I am having a problem with avrdude connecting to ATmega324p  
> > via AVR Dragon programmer. I am using MacBook Pro with OSX Tiger  
> > v10.4.11.
> > The command I am using is the following:
> > avrdude -p m324p -c dragon_isp -P usb -B 10 -vvvv
> > and the reply is:
> > avrdude: Version 5.5, compiled on Jul 21 2008 at 19:43:37
> >             Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean, http://www.bdmicro.com/
> >             System wide configuration file is "/usr/local/ 
> > AVRMacPack-20080721/etc/avrdude.conf"
> >             User configuration file is "/Users/star/.avrduderc"
> >             User configuration file does not exist or is not a  
> > regular file, skipping
> >             Using Port            : usb
> >             Using Programmer      : dragon_isp
> >             Setting bit clk period: 100.0
> > avrdude: stk500v2_dragon_isp_open()
> > avrdude: usbdev_open(): Found AVRDRAGON, serno: 00A200006F2E
> > avrdude: jtagmkII_getsync()
> > avrdude: jtagmkII_getsync(): Sending sign-on command:
> > avrdude: jtagmkII_send(): sending 1 bytes
> > avrdude: Sent: . [1b] . [00] . [00] . [01] . [00] . [00] . [00] .  
> > [0e] . [01] . [f3] . [97]
> > avrdude: jtagmkII_recv():
> > and it just hangs there.
> > I believe I have read every single post about similar problems - I  
> > have tried changing bitclock (-B option), uninstalling and  
> > reinstalling AVR MacPack, etc. I have tried to use avrdude 5.3.1  
> > with the similar (although not exactly the same) results as follows:
> > avrdude: Version 5.3.1.osxintelhack, compiled on Feb  1 2007 at  
> > 22:30:12
> >               Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean, http://www.bdmicro.com/
> >               System wide configuration file is "/usr/local/etc/ 
> > avrdude.conf"
> >               User configuration file is "/Users/star/.avrduderc"
> >               User configuration file does not exist or is not a  
> > regular file, skipping
> >               Using Port            : usb
> >               Using Programmer      : dragon_isp
> >               Setting bit clk period: 10.0
> > avrdude: stk500v2_dragon_isp_open()
> > avrdude: usbdev_open(): Found AVRDRAGON, serno: 00A200006F2E
> > avrdude: jtagmkII_getsync()
> > avrdude: jtagmkII_getsync(): Sending sign-on command:
> > avrdude: jtagmkII_send(): sending 1 bytes
> > avrdude: Sent: . [1b] . [00] . [00] . [01] . [00] . [00] . [00] .  
> > [0e] . [01] . [f3] . [97]
> > avrdude: jtagmkII_recv():
> > avrdude: usb_fill_buf(): usb_bulk_read() error usb_bulk_read: An  
> > error occured during read (see messages above)
> > avrdude: jtagmkII_recv(): Timeout receiving packet
> > avrdude: jtagmkII_getsync(): sign-on command: status -1
> > avrdude: jtagmkII_getsync(): Sending sign-on command:
> > avrdude: jtagmkII_send(): sending 1 bytes
> > avrdude: Sent: . [1b] . [00] . [00] . [01] . [00] . [00] . [00] .  
> > [0e] . [01] . [f3] . [97]
> > avrdude: jtagmkII_recv():
> > avrdude: usb_fill_buf(): usb_bulk_read() error usb_bulk_read: An  
> > error occured during read (see messages above)
> > avrdude: jtagmkII_recv(): Timeout receiving packet
> > avrdude: jtagmkII_getsync(): sign-on command: status -1
> > avrdude: jtagmkII_getsync(): Sending sign-on command:
> > avrdude: jtagmkII_send(): sending 1 bytes
> > avrdude: Sent: . [1b] . [00] . [00] . [01] . [00] . [00] . [00] .  
> > [0e] . [01] . [f3] . [97]
> > avrdude: jtagmkII_recv():
> > .......
> > and these lines just repeat ....
> > I've tried to use tiny85 instead of mega324p with the exactly same  
> > results.
> > When I tried to use WinAVR-20080610 on Win XP, avrdude works  
> > perfectly fine:
> > C:\> avrdude -p m324p -c dragon_isp -P usb -B 8.0 -v
> > avrdude: Version 5.5, compiled on Jun  9 2008 at 14:32:04
> >         Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean, http://www.bdmicro.com/
> >         System wide configuration file is "C:\WinAVR-20080610\bin 
> > \avrdude.conf"
> >         Using Port            : usb
> >         Using Programmer      : dragon_isp
> >         Setting bit clk period: 8.0
> > avrdude: usbdev_open(): Found AVRDRAGON, serno: 00A200006F2E
> > JTAG ICE mkII sign-on message:
> > Communications protocol version: 1
> > M_MCU:
> >  boot-loader FW version:        255
> >  firmware version:              1.01
> >  hardware version:              1
> > S_MCU:
> >  boot-loader FW version:        255
> >  firmware version:              1.09
> >  hardware version:              6
> > Serial number:                   00:a2:00:00:6f:2e
> > Device ID:                       AVRDRAGON
> >         AVR Part              : ATMEGA324P
> >         Chip Erase delay      : 9000 us
> >         PAGEL                 : PD7
> >         BS2                   : PA0
> >         RESET disposition     : dedicated
> >         RETRY pulse           : SCK
> >         serial program mode   : yes
> >         parallel program mode : yes
> >         Timeout               : 200
> >         StabDelay             : 100
> >         CmdexeDelay           : 25
> >         SyncLoops             : 32
> >         ByteDelay             : 0
> >         PollIndex             : 3
> >         PollValue             : 0x53
> >         Memory Detail         :
> >                                  Block Poll               Page
> >      Polled
> >           Memory Type Mode Delay Size  Indx Paged  Size   Size  
> > #Pages MinW  Max
> > W   ReadBack
> >           ----------- ---- ----- ----- ---- ------ ------ ----  
> > ------ ----- ---
> > -- ---------
> >           eeprom        65    10   128    0 no       1024    4       
> > 0  9000  90
> > 00 0xff 0xff
> >           flash         33     6   256    0 yes     32768  128     
> > 256  4500  45
> > 00 0xff 0xff
> >           lock           0     0     0    0 no          1    0       
> > 0  9000  90
> > 00 0x00 0x00
> >           lfuse          0     0     0    0 no          1    0       
> > 0  9000  90
> > 00 0x00 0x00
> >           hfuse          0     0     0    0 no          1    0       
> > 0  9000  90
> > 00 0x00 0x00
> >           efuse          0     0     0    0 no          1    0       
> > 0  9000  90
> > 00 0x00 0x00
> >           signature      0     0     0    0 no          3    0       
> > 0     0
> > 0 0x00 0x00
> >           calibration    0     0     0    0 no          1    0       
> > 0     0
> > 0 0x00 0x00
> >         Programmer Type : DRAGON_ISP
> >         Description     : Atmel AVR Dragon in ISP mode
> >         Vtarget         : 5.0 V
> >         SCK period      : 8.00 us
> > avrdude: AVR device initialized and ready to accept instructions
> > Reading | ################################################## | 100%  
> > 0.16s
> > avrdude: Device signature = 0x1e9508
> > avrdude: safemode: lfuse reads as 62
> > avrdude: safemode: hfuse reads as 99
> > avrdude: safemode: efuse reads as FF
> > avrdude: safemode: lfuse reads as 62
> > avrdude: safemode: hfuse reads as 99
> > avrdude: safemode: efuse reads as FF
> > avrdude: safemode: Fuses OK
> > avrdude done.  Thank you.
> > Also, AVR Studio works perfectly well too without any problems (I  
> > just needed to juggle between two USB drivers a bit - Jungo one  
> > from AVR Studio and other one from WinAVR).
> > I would appreciate any suggestions as I was unable to find any in  
> > the posts with the similar problems.
> > Many thanks,
> > Armin Stranjak
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