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 15WRUH-0001aE-00 for ; Tue, 14 Aug 2001 00:51:13 +0100 From: David Woodhouse In-Reply-To: <200108131925.PAA19680@stone.tmok.com> References: <200108131925.PAA19680@stone.tmok.com> To: pla Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: DOC2000 erase size of 16k? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 00:56:16 +0100 Message-ID: <17674.997746976@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: 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