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 17aDFA-0000lZ-00 for ; Thu, 01 Aug 2002 11:31:44 +0100 From: David Woodhouse In-Reply-To: <1028147069.12139.81.camel@mahi190.austin.ibm.com> References: <1028147069.12139.81.camel@mahi190.austin.ibm.com> <1028064443.23642.52.camel@mahi190.austin.ibm.com> <20020731163530.70c45960.stuart.menefy@st.com> To: Stephen Hui Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, stuart.menefy@st.com Subject: Re: "Read-only file system" error while writing Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 11:31:40 +0100 Message-ID: <28851.1028197900@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: gromit1463@mailworks.org said: > they all call do_write_buffer(). I was looking at the specsheet for > my STMicro chips, and I didn't see any mention of Write-to-Buffer > (command 0xE0) which is in the Intel command set, and issued by > do_write_buffer(). Is this command supported on the STMicro chips? > Could non-support contribute to my problem? We should be checking the CFI table for buffer-write support and not trying to use it if it's not present. Can you check the datasheet for the chip agrees with the built-in CFI table? -- dwmw2