From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from dell-paw-3.cambridge.redhat.com ([195.224.55.237] helo=passion.cambridge.redhat.com) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 16j0F0-0005MM-00 for ; Thu, 07 Mar 2002 15:55:38 +0000 From: David Woodhouse In-Reply-To: References: To: Vadim Khmelnitsky Cc: 'Herman Theron' , strtok@hotmail.com, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: Lost DOC2000 after trying to load grub Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 16:01:14 +0000 Message-ID: <12182.1015516874@redhat.com> 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: 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