From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mbutcher206.dsl.frii.net ([216.17.171.206] helo=www.aleph-null.tv) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 15DZbT-0000Je-00 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 23:40:40 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: M Butcher To: "David Woodhouse" Subject: Re: DOC Millenium not found by docprobe Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 16:39:49 -0600 Cc: "MTD for Linux" References: <0106211659100B.11839@golan> <26595.993165317@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <26595.993165317@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0106221639490C.11839@golan> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: On Thursday 21 June 2001 05:15 pm, David Woodhouse wrote: > mbutcher@aleph-null.tv said: > > But I wanted to create a single partition, so I followed the steps in > > the jffs howto and did the following: > > (0: sometimes do an 'erase') > > 1: nftl_format /dev/mtd0 > > 2: fdisk /dev/nftla (make one big partition) > > You didn't need step 1. We definitely shouldn't be encouraging people to do > that. Just using fdisk to change the partitioning would have been enough. > So I should really only nftl_format when the DOC is hosed? > > 3: mke2fs /dev/nftla > > Is this a typo? Having made a partition you then erased it by using mkfs on > the _whole_ device rather than the single partition. That's fine if it's > what you wanted... but... > That should have been mke2fs /dev/nftla1 The intent was to make the fs on the partition... > > 4: mount -t ext2 /dev/nftla1 /mnt > > I'm amazed this worked. > Well... had I typed #3 correctly, you probably wouldn't be as amazed. ;-) > mbutcher@aleph-null.tv said: > > When I used the Millenium Only driver, I got an error from docprobe > > saying something like "no driver", though I could see it with lsmod. > > To use that, you need to undef DOC_SINGLE_DRIVER in docprobe.c > Oh, yeah... that's even in the doc. Sorry. Which driver would you recommend in this situation? The Millenium-only? Also, any ideas why the DOC "disappears" after a while -- e.g. why, after doing the above process a few times, the DOC is no longer detected? Thanks, Matt