On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 04:05:13AM -0800, Dan Halperin wrote: > On Nov 2, 2008, at 4:01 PM, Robert McGwier wrote: >> The correct instructions seem to be >> >> cd usrp2/firmware >> Run "sudo ./u2_flash_tool --dev=/dev/XXXX -t s/w ./apps/txrx.bin -w" >> >> with the rest which I emphasize again. If you get the wrong XXXX for >> the device, you can wipe out your hard drive. Most people will have >> their hard drive as /dev/sda and on my computer it seems the device >> is, like Matt's computer, to be /dev/sdb. > > An obvious thing to do here is to read the size of the device and abort > if it's > 2 or 4 GB. It's simple to get the device size (this works on > /dev/sda1 in ubuntu 8.10 using python 2.6 at least): > > dev = open(devname, "r") > dev.seek(0, os.SEEK_END) > size_in_gigs = dev.tell() / (2.0**30) > > Thanks, > Dan
Good idea Dan! Thanks, Eric _______________________________________________ Patch-gnuradio mailing list Patch-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/patch-gnuradio
