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From: Manuel Sahm <Manuel.Sahm@feig.de>
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Ricard Wanderlof schrieb:
>
> On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Manuel Sahm wrote:
>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> could you tell me the exact call:
>>
>> I have a NAND-Flash with PAGESSIZE = 0x800 and ERASEBLOCKSIZE=0x20000
>>
>> I want to write a file maybe called "test.txt" at adress 0x02000000 
>> of the NAND flash.
>
> Something like
>
> nandwrite -s 0x02000000 -p /dev/mtd0 test.txt
>
> (mtd0 depending on which device your nandflash is)
>
> (Note: you don't have to specify the padding size, nandwrite figures 
> it out by querying mtd).
>
>> And read it back to a file "test2.txt" afterwards.
>
> Something like
>
> nanddump -o -b -s 0x02000000 -l <filesize> -f test2.txt /dev/mtd0
>
> where <filesize> is the size of your file.
>
> /Ricard
> -- 
> Ricard Wolf Wanderlöf                           ricardw(at)axis.com
> Axis Communications AB, Lund, Sweden            www.axis.com
> Phone +46 46 272 2016                           Fax +46 46 13 61 30
Thank you very much....

Is it possible to write/read to the NAND flash "directly" without an 
partition ?(/dev/mtdX) ?

Best regards 

Manuel Sahm