the "flash" program in openOS does not warn that the EEPROM is readonly

[igorkll]

when trying to flash read only eeprom, the flash program does not display a message stating that the flash failed

[Ocawesome101]

how does one make an eeprom read-only?

[ff66theone]

There is a function called eeprom.makeReadOnly(), but the problem I encountered while making the fix was that I can't query the read-only state of the EEPROM, so I resorted to try changing the label, which, I checked in the source code, fails if the EEPROM is read-only.

[ff66theone]

Uhhhh your fix didn't implement any warning before flashing, so does it really fix this issue ?

[asiekierka]

the flash program does not display a message stating that the flash failed

Now it displays a message stating that the flash failed (because eeprom.set() always returned an error message, it was just ignored). Showing a "warning" before makes no difference. On top of that, this approach is future-proof in case OpenComputers adds other ways for flashing to fail (for example, insufficient power can cause an EEPROM flash to fail).