AVR Pocket Programmer Problem

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I’m trying to program a ATmega328p using the AVR pocket programmer on OSX 10.7.3. The device initializes fine and I can read/write the fuses but reading or writing the flash it won’t respond.

Attempting to write:

avrdude -c usbtiny -p m328p -U flash:w:blink_1MHz.hex -v

avrdude: Version 5.11svn-20111019, compiled on Apr  6 2012 at 16:45:54
         Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean, http://www.bdmicro.com/
         Copyright (c) 2007-2009 Joerg Wunsch

         System wide configuration file is "/usr/local/etc/avrdude.conf"
         User configuration file is "/Users/mattb/.avrduderc"
         User configuration file does not exist or is not a regular file, skipping

         Using Port                    : unknown
         Using Programmer              : usbtiny
avrdude: usbdev_open(): Found USBtinyISP, bus:device: 253:004
         AVR Part                      : ATMEGA328P
         Chip Erase delay              : 9000 us
         PAGEL                         : PD7
         BS2                           : PC2
         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  MaxW   ReadBack
           ----------- ---- ----- ----- ---- ------ ------ ---- ------ ----- ----- ---------
           eeprom        65    20     4    0 no       1024    4      0  3600  3600 0xff 0xff
           flash         65     6   128    0 yes     32768  128    256  4500  4500 0xff 0xff
           lfuse          0     0     0    0 no          1    0      0  4500  4500 0x00 0x00
           hfuse          0     0     0    0 no          1    0      0  4500  4500 0x00 0x00
           efuse          0     0     0    0 no          1    0      0  4500  4500 0x00 0x00
           lock           0     0     0    0 no          1    0      0  4500  4500 0x00 0x00
           calibration    0     0     0    0 no          1    0      0     0     0 0x00 0x00
           signature      0     0     0    0 no          3    0      0     0     0 0x00 0x00

         Programmer Type : USBtiny
         Description     : USBtiny simple USB programmer, http://www.ladyada.net/make/usbtinyisp/
avrdude: programmer operation not supported

avrdude: Using SCK period of 10 usec
avrdude: AVR device initialized and ready to accept instructions

Reading | ################################################## | 100% 0.01s

avrdude: Device signature = 0x1e950f
avrdude: safemode: lfuse reads as 62
avrdude: safemode: hfuse reads as D9
avrdude: safemode: efuse reads as 7
avrdude: NOTE: FLASH memory has been specified, an erase cycle will be performed
         To disable this feature, specify the -D option.
avrdude: erasing chip
avrdude: Using SCK period of 10 usec
avrdude: reading input file "blink_1MHz.hex"
avrdude: input file blink_1MHz.hex auto detected as Intel Hex
avrdude: writing flash (248 bytes):

Writing |                                                    | 0% 0.00s^C

Using more verbose output it sends the command “CMD: [4c 00 40 00] [00 4c 00 40]” over and over over…

Any ideas?

Thanks!

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Update:

After playing around with it more (while holding back the urge to just throw entire breadboard out the window.) I was able to get it working. Seems the problem is/was the compiled hex. Using the hex file from blink_1MHz.zip or even taking the source code and compiling it myself on my Mac (Using Crosspack: http://www.obdev.at/products/crosspack/index.html) doesn’t seem to work. But if I compile it on a separate Linux box and then transfer the .hex onto my Mac, then flash with avrdude everything works as it should. Weird.