DOC2000 & NFTL problems

[Ciro Cattuto <ciro@prosa.it>]

Hello,

I decided to give a try to the DOC2000/NFTL driver included in mtd.
I have an Eurotech PC104 SBC with a DOC socket. I'm using a 2 Mb DOC2000,
enabled in the SBC BIOS and mapped at 0xd8000.

Under DOS everything works fine: the systems detects, identifies and
formats the DOC. Everything is also fine with the binary-only Linux driver
provided by M-Systems, under Linux 2.0.38.

Next, I try Linux 2.2.16 with the mtd driver and patch.

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 M-Systems DiskOnChip driver. (C) 1999 Machine Vision Holdings, Inc.
 DiskOnChip 2000 found at address 0xD8000
 1 flash chips found. Total DiskOnChip size: 2 Mb
 Ignoring DiskOnChip 2000 at 0xDA000 - already configured
 M-Systems NAND Flash Translation Layer driver. (C) 1999 MVHI
 $Id: nftl.c,v 1.37 2000/07/26 10:02:27 dwmw2 Exp $
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...then I get the following message, repeated for all EUNs (0-511)...

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 EUN 506: EraseMark not 0x3c69 (0xffff 0xffff instead)
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...and when it comes to detecting the partition, I get:

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  nftla: unknown partition table
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NOTE: there _is_ a valid NFTL partition on the DOC, while the above happens.

Okay, now I try to format the DOC using nftl_format: no errors.
When I try to fdisk /dev/nftla, though, I get an invalid partition table.
Any attempt to write a new partition table results in the following:

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 NFTL_writeblock(): Cannot find block to write to
 end_request: I/O error, dev 5d:00 (unknown), sector 2
 No Virtual Unit Chains available for folding. Failing request
 Cannot make free space.
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...I'm probably missing something obvious, but I would still appreciate
some feedback on this problem. Thank you.

Cheers,

Ciro

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