On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 06:53:37PM -0700, Eugene Surovegin wrote: > 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.
Oops, sorry, I failed to notice /dev/mtdblockX. Stupid me. Ignore this noise. -- Eugene