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 15l4YO-0000yW-00 for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 09:23:56 +0100 From: David Woodhouse In-Reply-To: <20010922160958.5797.qmail@qis> References: <20010922160958.5797.qmail@qis> To: "Nikolai Vladychevski" Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: nftl driver Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 09:32:08 +0100 Message-ID: <20004.1001233928@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: niko@isl.net.mx said: > If this problem of writing zeros is due to the module unloading > problem, how can I solve it if the driver is in the kernel and cant > be reloaded? Almost certainly. The driver has lots if internal state about the old NFTL format cached, and you've gone and changed it all. You should never need to use nftl_format. If you want new data, just write new data to /dev/nftla. You don't need to do a low-level format just to change the data. -- dwmw2