SmartMedia Card need to create fs before mounting it ?

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On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, John Hall wrote:
Thank your advice!

I don't understand what difference between /dev/mtd/x and /dev/mtdblock/x 
?
I just know if I configured "CONFIG_MTD_CHAR=y", will get /dev/mtd/x
and if configured "CONFIG_MTD_BLOCK=y", will get /dev/mtdblock/x.
So I think mtd/x are char devices and mtdblock/x are block devices, but
which one link to SmartMedia card ? Can we both use mtd/x and mtdblock/x 
to accss SmartMedia ?

I used eraseall to erase /dev/mtd/6, it shown following messages..
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<---------skip above
eraseall: /dev/mtd/6: MTD Erase failure: Input/output error
Erasing 8 Kibyte @ 7f4000 -- 99 % complete.
eraseall: /dev/mtd/6: MTD Erase failure: Input/output error
Erasing 8 Kibyte @ 7f8000 -- 99 % complete.
eraseall: /dev/mtd/6: MTD Erase failure: Input/output error
Erasing 8 Kibyte @ 7fa000 -- 99 % complete.
eraseall: /dev/mtd/6: MTD Erase failure: Input/output error
Erasing 8 Kibyte @ 7fe000 -- 99 % complete.
eraseall: /dev/mtd/6: MTD Erase failure: Input/output error
Erased 8192 Kibyte @ 0 -- 100% complete. 

It indicated I/O error that I don't what's up.

Best regards,
Brian Lee
 

> On 26 November 2002 07:36 Charles Manning <manningc2 at actrix.gen.nz>
> wrote:
> 
> > > When I mount a partition on the SmartMedia card, if I must need to
> > > put a jffs2's image on it before mounting it ? Or existed a tool
> > > that can directly make jffs2 on the nand flash ?
> > 
> > I believe you will need to run mkfs.jffs2 to format the nand first.
> > 
> > You will find this in mtd/util in the mtd cvs.
> 
> Or just erase the NAND flash to create an empty JFFS2 partition:
> 
> 	eraseall /dev/mtdx
> 
> eraseall is also in mtd/util.
> 
> cheers,
> John
>