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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: pla <pla@tmok.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: DOC2000 erase size of 16k?
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 00:56:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <17674.997746976@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200108131925.PAA19680@stone.tmok.com>

pla@tmok.com said:
>  Ah!  Now I see how this all fits together.  Many thanks, and I will
> certainly write up my experiences for the HowTo.  Incidentally, for
> anyone else trying this, it would serve them well to back up the bad
> blocks section of their DOC before doing *anything*.  I seem to have
> killed my DOC by overwriting it, without a backup (fortunately, I can
> just get another from work, but not everyone has that luxury).

I don't believe it's possible to really kill the hardware. Just unwise to 
lose the factory-programmed information about bad sectors. We could fix 
nftl_format to preserve that information, and probably should do so quite 
soon.

What failure mode are you seeing with it now?

--
dwmw2

  reply	other threads:[~2001-08-13 23:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-13 19:25 DOC2000 erase size of 16k? pla
2001-08-13 23:56 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-08-14  1:40 pla
2001-08-13  1:29 pla
2001-08-13  7:37 ` David Woodhouse
2001-08-12 23:33 pla
2001-08-12 23:46 ` David Woodhouse
2001-08-13 14:40   ` Vipin Malik

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