From 778dc1caea8445a86f3938724bfc6437db346386 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christopher Harrington <chris@harrington.mn>
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2021 12:35:04 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Alternate flash command for Pinecil w/o mass-erase

It seems the common wisdom at this point is to flash without the explicit erase if `dfu-util` is unable to complete the erase.
---
 Documentation/Flashing.md | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/Flashing.md b/Documentation/Flashing.md
index 4252e18a..0fffd9b4 100644
--- a/Documentation/Flashing.md
+++ b/Documentation/Flashing.md
@@ -98,6 +98,12 @@ Using `dfu-util` you can flash the firmware using a command line as such:
 dfu-util -d 28e9:0189 -a 0 -D Pinecil_EN.bin -s 0x08000000:mass-erase:force
 ```
 
+If this command fails with `dfu-util: Error during special command "MASS_ERASE" get_status`, try this instead:
+
+```
+dfu-util -d 28e9:0189 -a 0 -D Pinecil_EN.bin -s 0x08000000
+```
+
 ### Windows
 
 For windows the easiest tool to use is the vendors gui tool from [here](http://www.gd32mcu.com/download/down/document_id/176/path_type/1).