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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Gareth Williams <gareth@microm-electronics.com>
Cc: "'lists-mtd@lists.infradead.org'" <lists-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Quick question.
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 13:22:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6619.1003494146@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <25D13BA49CC6D31193040040953309CE7F9F@MICSERV>

gareth@microm-electronics.com said:
> ANAND header found @ 0xC000 in mtd0, but ECC read failed (err 1) 
> ANAND header found @ 0xE000 in mtd0, but ECC read failed (err 1)
> Could not find valid boot record.
> Could not mount NFTL device.

It's being anal and refusing to deal with the Media Header because the ECC 
failed on that block - it seems that some versions of the M-Systems 
firmware don't put ECC on the Media Header blocks.

--- drivers/mtd/nftlmount.c	2001/09/19 21:42:32	1.23
+++ drivers/mtd/nftlmount.c	2001/10/19 12:22:13
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@
 			continue;
 		}
 
-#if 1 /* Some people seem to have devices without ECC or erase marks
+#if 0 /* Some people seem to have devices without ECC or erase marks
 	 on the Media Header blocks. There are enough other sanity
 	 checks in here that we can probably do without it.
       */



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dwmw2

  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-19 12:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-19 12:36 Quick question Gareth Williams
2001-10-19 12:22 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-06-26 11:00 quick question Stephen Brown
2003-06-26 11:06 ` David Woodhouse
2003-06-26 12:26   ` Stephen Brown
     [not found]   ` <005301c33bda$9e5621a0$11c8a8c0@stevejunior>
2003-06-26 12:34     ` David Woodhouse

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