From: Ralph Siemsen <ralphs@netwinder.org>
To: Thorsten Haas <haas@deutaeit.de>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: CFI physmap - how to create partitions
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 08:58:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <428DDF13.8030503@netwinder.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1116573984.2737.13.camel@shrek>
Thorsten Haas wrote:
> Yes, they are the same. Yes, they are consecutive in memory. Yes, I
> tried that. Yes, it's now less undocumented, because my diff contains
> this information :)
Excellent.
> Well, actually, when using physmap.c I am able to create partitions, but
> there is still some trouble when using the mtd partitions: erasing and
> mounting fails.
>
> Does someone have an idea, what I am doing wrong?
>
> # flash_erase /dev/mtd0
> File open error
That's a bit worrysome... Not sure if it checks for this, but do you
have this partition mounted at the time?
Also check in /proc/devices that major 90 is in fact registered.
> # flash_erase /dev/mtd4 0x0 0x40
> Erase Total 64 Units
> Performing Flash Erase of length 131072 at offset 0x160000
> MTD Erase failure: Invalid argument
Hmm, I always use "flash_eraseall" command myself, so I don't have to
worry about the block numbers and such. But I doubt this makes any
difference, your problem seems to lie elsewhere.
-R
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-20 12:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-18 8:05 CFI physmap - how to create partitions Thorsten Haas
2005-05-18 22:35 ` Ralph Siemsen
2005-05-19 8:06 ` Thorsten Haas
2005-05-19 11:54 ` Ralph Siemsen
2005-05-20 7:26 ` Thorsten Haas
2005-05-20 12:58 ` Ralph Siemsen [this message]
2005-05-20 13:20 ` Thorsten Haas
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