mtd on linux

[Manatee]

On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, David Woodhouse wrote:

> Which device?

It is a Disk On Chip and it fits into a PCI slot.

> Do you have a DiskOnChip on an evaluation board? The way I prevent it from
> interfering with normal booting is to remove the jumper which controls the
> memory window during booting, and replace it after the grub or lilo prompt
> has appeared. If you _never_ want to boot from it, you can just destroy the
> firmware on it. M-Systems provide an 'fff.exb' or similarly named firmware
> file for this purpose.

I see where jumpers would go but there are no jumpers on the card.


> If you get Linux to boot, with the DOC2000 and NFTL config options
> turned on (or if you load the modules), then you ought to be able to access
> the device as /dev/nftla (block 93,0) and /dev/nftla1 (block 93,1).

Ah, so if I can get the machine to boot -- with the card in place -- then
I can access the card.

Manatee



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