From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtpauth01.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net ([64.202.165.181]) by canuck.infradead.org with smtp (Exim 4.63 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1IJa5J-0004JP-Aa for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:23:53 -0400 Message-ID: <46BCBB6F.7050406@techmoninc.com> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:24:31 -0500 From: Andy Kennedy MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Donald Green , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [Fwd: M-Sys drivers] References: <46BA20BB.1040607@techmoninc.com> <87F8ED761B96574FA3397B6ADBC372AC064310B0@MI8NYCMAIL01.Mi8.com> <46BB764D.1000008@techmoninc.com> <87F8ED761B96574FA3397B6ADBC372AC064310E8@MI8NYCMAIL01.Mi8.com> <46BB79BC.5070708@techmoninc.com> <87F8ED761B96574FA3397B6ADBC372AC06431118@MI8NYCMAIL01.Mi8.com> <46BB80C8.1060803@techmoninc.com> <87F8ED761B96574FA3397B6ADBC372AC0643112D@MI8NYCMAIL01.Mi8.com> <46BC78BB.7020605@techmoninc.com> <87F8ED761B96574FA3397B6ADBC372AC06431282@MI8NYCMAIL01.Mi8.com> <46BC7CB7.7080002@techmoninc.com> <87F8ED761B96574FA3397B6ADBC372AC064312AB@MI8NYCMAIL01.Mi8.com> In-Reply-To: <87F8ED761B96574FA3397B6ADBC372AC064312AB@MI8NYCMAIL01.Mi8.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Good theory. The thing that gets me is that I see this same error when I fdisk a device like /dev/sda1 in place of /dev/sda. Is it possible that the nftl driver is handing out the wrong partition information? Is there a way that I can know for sure that the device was formatted correctly by the nftl driver? I'm having this same problem with the MD-2800-D08 and MD-2202-D32-X. If you development folks have any suggestions I'm game. Please enlighten me! Donald Green wrote: > I've put the config put up. It is for a 2.6.20 kernel. I won't have a > chance to boot the image you made until sometime early next week but I'd > be happy to give it a try. It sounds like you had the same experience I > did. I loaded the nftl driver and it formatted the DOC. I was theorizing > that this creates an incorrect bad sector map and that that could be > corrected by using dformat. My process fails when I try to complete the > fdisk formatting operation by commiting the changes with the w command. > > > -Don > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andy Kennedy [mailto:akennedy@techmoninc.com] > Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 10:57 AM > To: Donald Green > Subject: Re: [Fwd: M-Sys drivers] > > Donald Green wrote: > >> Hi Andy: >> >> >> The kernel I have in the iso I'm sending is built for a Geode and >> > uses > >> the natsemi Ethernet driver, will these settings work? If not let me >> know what processor and Ethernet driver your target has and I can >> rebuild it. >> >> -Don >> >> > > I'm sure that that will work. . . it isn't much different from the > Pentium-MMX (they're all pretty much the same until you get to the PII > anyways). There would probably be some obscure functionality > differences, but if I can get a good kernel config - hey, that's the > price I'm willing to pay. Can you also send me a config file and > version of the kernel you have? > > If you'd be willing to try it, I'd like for you to attempt to load my > floppy on your computer to see if you can mount the nftla1 -- one issue, > > however, is that when I load the nftl driver (I have it as a module in > the initrd), it formats the DOC -- which may blow your system away. . . > but if you are willing to take the risk I'd like to know if my > configuration works. It is kernel 2.6.22.1 without any patches and then > > there's BusyBox. I don't know the BusyBox version but if you boot the > disk, you'll see the version. Booting the disk is harmless -- it is > just loading that module that seems to really hose up everything. > > Thanks again for your help! > Andy > > > >