Lost DOC2000 after trying to load grub

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Thu Mar 7 11:01:14 EST 2002


VadimK at m-sys.com said:
> If i understand eraseall utility correctly it erases the whole
> diskonchip completely . After that bad block table is lost and it's
> unsafe to use such diskonchip afterwards . 

You are correct. Neither nftl_format or eraseall functions are safe.

How feasible would it be to port the M-Systems DFORMAT utility to work 
under Linux through the MTD driver? 

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