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 17aXzh-0003AN-00 for ; Fri, 02 Aug 2002 09:41:09 +0100 From: David Woodhouse In-Reply-To: <200208021020.47923.jens.nixdorf@embesso.com> References: <200208021020.47923.jens.nixdorf@embesso.com> To: Jens Nixdorf Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: DOC will formatted again and again Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 09:41:07 +0100 Message-ID: <25819.1028277667@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: jens.nixdorf@embesso.com said: > i've send this posting some days before, but didn't get an answer and > also didn't found a solution somewhere else. Therefore i send my > question again: You need to ensure the offending blocks are _marked_ as bad so we don't try to format them again. Not sure why we don't do that anyway when the format fails. Where did you get nftl_format and how are you trying to run it? -- dwmw2