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From: Marco Schramel <Schramel.Linux@go.bartec.de>
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Hi,

> > 
> > /dev # date > /dev/mtd1
> > MTD_open
> > MTD_ioctl
> > MTD_write
> > MTD do_write_buffer(): software timeout
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR

This only occurs if i write the second time to the flash memory without erasing it before.

> What has a ramdisk to do with this?

I wrote in a message later, that i meant the /dev nodes in this case. 

> What does "cat /proc/mtd" show? What are  the  kernel  boot  messages
> look like?
> 
mtd0: 01000000 00020000 "JFFS2 partition 1"
mtd1: 00800000 00020000 "JFFS2 partition 2"
mtd2: 00400000 00020000 "RAMDISK "
mtd3: 00300000 00020000 "kernel image 2_4"
mtd4: 00100000 00020000 "Das U-Boot "

Best regards
Marco