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From: Eugene Surovegin <ebs@ebshome.net>
To: J?rn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Cc: PPC_LINUX <linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: mtd mount problem
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 18:53:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050422015337.GC20046@gate.ebshome.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050422013134.GB27755@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>

On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 03:31:34AM +0200, J?rn Engel wrote:

[snip]

> 1. Erase the flash partition.  Either
>    o eraseall /dev/mtdX or
>    o cat file_filled_with_0xff > /dev/mtdblockX

Huh? I fail to see how options you listed are equivalent. By 
"cat"ing file filled with 0xff you cannot erase flash, period.

Only eraseall (or erase, if partition occupies 1 erase block) flash 
can be erased.

-- 
Eugene

  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-22  1:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-21  9:17 mtd mount problem Marco Schramel
2005-04-21  8:50 ` Eugene Surovegin
2005-04-21  9:44   ` Marco Schramel
2005-04-21 15:47     ` Eugene Surovegin
2005-04-21  9:54 ` Daniel Ann
2005-04-21 10:32 ` Wolfgang Denk
2005-04-21 13:02   ` Marco Schramel
2005-04-22  1:31     ` Jörn Engel
2005-04-22  1:53       ` Eugene Surovegin [this message]
2005-04-22  1:55         ` Eugene Surovegin
2005-04-22  2:11           ` Jörn Engel
2005-04-21 14:44   ` Kylo Ginsberg

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