From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from majordomo by infradead.org with local (Exim 3.16 #2) id 143Uvy-0003c1-00 for mtd-list@infradead.org; Wed, 06 Dec 2000 03:07:54 +0000 Received: from [203.46.70.199] (helo=singularity.tronunltd.com) by infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #2) id 143Uvv-0003bu-00 for mtd@infradead.org; Wed, 06 Dec 2000 03:07:52 +0000 Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 13:07:36 +1000 Message-Id: <200012060307.NAA20262@singularity.tronunltd.com> To: "Nicolas Pitre" Subject: Re: Problems with r/w on mtdblock0 From: "Ian" Cc: mtd@infradead.org, linuxbios@lanl.gov Reply-To: "Ian" Sender: owner-mtd@infradead.org List-ID: > The above should be considered as a mtdblock bug IMHO. As long as its not my own doofusness ... but I can't see how ... > It shouldn't matter. The driver will actually write 8k if that's the erase > size regardless of the size of your access. Yeah ... that's what I reckon too ... but Ollie's part of (if not all of) the DoC writing team ... so I try not to doubt it (the software's) ability :) > > > you are playing with the IPL stuff, WRITE TO /dev/mtd0. > Hmmm.... What's IPL? Initial program loader ... there's a bunch of us @ linuxBIOS taking these things and sticking them into the Motherboard's BIOS socket, then booting linux off of it. Unfortunately, I'm the only guy *not* doing that at night .. because mines broken :-( > No it's not, unless you actually reboot before dd return to the shell > prompt. Yeah .. that's what I would've thought .. (after yesterday's thread). > ... and that you shouldn't. > > I just don't have any hardware with DiskOnChip or NAND flash to test and fix > the problem... therefore I'm not aware of the difference with NOR flash as > far as the block interface is concerned. > > Any hints someone? If you want me to try things and send you results, I'm cool with that. I'd *rather* be writing to the block device (at least you should be able to "sync" it). -- http://HumanHeuristic.com/ "Bringing people together in a world full of computers" To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe mtd" to majordomo@infradead.org