From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Vadim Khmelnitsky <VadimK@m-sys.com>
Cc: 'Herman Theron' <HEtheron@csir.co.za>,
strtok@hotmail.com, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Lost DOC2000 after trying to load grub
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 16:01:14 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <12182.1015516874@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AEA9DCA73595D411A6D4009027DE9C5E019BFA43@MSI-EX6>
VadimK@m-sys.com said:
> If i understand eraseall utility correctly it erases the whole
> diskonchip completely . After that bad block table is lost and it's
> unsafe to use such diskonchip afterwards .
You are correct. Neither nftl_format or eraseall functions are safe.
How feasible would it be to port the M-Systems DFORMAT utility to work
under Linux through the MTD driver?
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-07 15:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-07 15:56 Lost DOC2000 after trying to load grub Vadim Khmelnitsky
2002-03-07 16:01 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
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2002-03-08 1:01 Vadim Khmelnitsky
2002-03-07 6:46 Herman Theron
2002-03-06 15:19 Chris Fowler
2002-03-06 15:24 ` David Woodhouse
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