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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: john@frumious.unidec.co.uk
Cc: mtd@infradead.org
Subject: Re: doc2000 geometry problem?
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 14:11:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <10462.962802681@cygnus.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00070511345100.24168@frumious.unidec.co.uk>


john@frumious.unidec.co.uk said:
>  The nftldump, erase and nftl_format utils all return an error (-1,
> helpful that) on the ioctl(blah,MEMGETINFO,&blah) call,

You _are_ using them on the flash device /dev/mtd0 aren't you, not on the 
nftl device /dev/nftla ?

You shouldn't need to do it though - can you not mount the /dev/nftla1 
partition? Or reformat it to ext2 with 'mkfs.ext2 /dev/nftla1' ?

--
dwmw2




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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-07-05 10:34 doc2000 geometry problem? dr john halewood
2000-07-05 13:11 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2000-07-05 13:54   ` dr john halewood

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