From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: pla <pla@tmok.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: DOC2000 erase size of 16k?
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 00:56:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17674.997746976@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200108131925.PAA19680@stone.tmok.com>
pla@tmok.com said:
> Ah! Now I see how this all fits together. Many thanks, and I will
> certainly write up my experiences for the HowTo. Incidentally, for
> anyone else trying this, it would serve them well to back up the bad
> blocks section of their DOC before doing *anything*. I seem to have
> killed my DOC by overwriting it, without a backup (fortunately, I can
> just get another from work, but not everyone has that luxury).
I don't believe it's possible to really kill the hardware. Just unwise to
lose the factory-programmed information about bad sectors. We could fix
nftl_format to preserve that information, and probably should do so quite
soon.
What failure mode are you seeing with it now?
--
dwmw2
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2001-08-13 19:25 DOC2000 erase size of 16k? pla
2001-08-13 23:56 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
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2001-08-14 1:40 pla
2001-08-13 1:29 pla
2001-08-13 7:37 ` David Woodhouse
2001-08-12 23:33 pla
2001-08-12 23:46 ` David Woodhouse
2001-08-13 14:40 ` Vipin Malik
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