diff --git a/avrdude/ChangeLog b/avrdude/ChangeLog
index e1161aec..3dbc04ea 100644
--- a/avrdude/ChangeLog
+++ b/avrdude/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2009-07-11  Joerg Wunsch <j.gnu@uriah.heep.sax.de>
+
+	bug #26002: HVPP of EEPROM with AVR Dragon and ATmega8 Fails
+	* avrdude.conf.in (ATmega8): add page size for EEPROM.
+
 2009-07-07  Joerg Wunsch <j.gnu@uriah.heep.sax.de>
 
 	* stk500v2.c: Fix a serious memory corruption problem resulting
diff --git a/avrdude/avrdude.conf.in b/avrdude/avrdude.conf.in
index b5b5f94a..10a89f6f 100644
--- a/avrdude/avrdude.conf.in
+++ b/avrdude/avrdude.conf.in
@@ -6563,6 +6563,7 @@ part
 
     memory "eeprom"
         size            = 512;
+        page_size       = 4;
         min_write_delay = 9000;
         max_write_delay = 9000;
         readback_p1     = 0xff;