I have added a kick select switch that switches between reading the bootloader from the SPI Wink, and the SD card. The errors I get all point to a problem in communicating with the TPM chip. The drives work fine, equally I will describe below. The paradigm was successfully written to the drives, and verified. Running recovery from a usb or sd drive gets to verifying image so fails.
The recovery diagnostics info (TAB) shows TPM error in read only firmware 0x05. This is a Samsung Chromebook XE303C12 Snowfall FREMONT A-E 0878 I am getting the dreaded recovery screen “Chrome OS is missing or damaged”, I originally posted in Chromebook Central, but they suggested asking hither instead…