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From: Muhammad Yahya <Muhammad.Yahya@Sun.COM>
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Subject: Errors writing to flash
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Hi,

I am running a PPC 875 board with Linux  2.4.25 and an 8MB flash.
When I try to write to the flash an image, as


>
> /tmp # wget -O - 
> http://129.148.183.102/~muhammad/flashupdate/spimage_nouboot |
> dd of=/dev/mtdblock0 bs=1k seek=256
> 7936+0 records in
> 7936+0 records out
>
> The write seems to go OK withiout any errors, but, on the console, we see
> the following messages which I an not sure if they are coming from 
> jffs or the mtd driver.
> Sometimes these messages are output right away after the write 
> completes and
> sometimes there is a delay before they are output:
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> Node totlen on flash (0xffffffff) != totlen in node ref (0x000000c0)
> Node totlen on flash (0xffffffff) != totlen in node ref (0x00000064)
> Node totlen on flash (0xffffffff) != totlen in node ref (0x00000044)
>
> Any idea as to what this means and how to avoid this ? 

Thanks!
Muhammad

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