Re: [avrdude-dev] avrispmkii (usb) and terminal mode when can't access chip..

[Joerg Wunsch]

As Neil Davey wrote:

> Am I missing something simple? Is there a way of getting to terminal
> mode without a proper connection to a chip?

Yep, it is: -F.  Usually you might also want to add -u then (disable
safemode -- there's no fuse to save and recover anyway).

This should probably also be accessible from the command-line without
a connection to the target, but while the first part might not be too
difficult, I think it's not that easy to get AVRDUDE to not try
connecting to a target rather early in the game.

It's a bit worse on the JTAG ICE (and maybe also the AVRISP) as they
need to see proper target power at least, even with -F.

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