How to mount flash disk to /dev/mtd*

Thomas Gleixner tglx at linutronix.de
Mon Jul 4 07:39:22 EDT 2005


On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 18:48 +0800, A.U.T Information wrote:
>              I have a usb flash disk.I want to read/write/erase  the
> USB flash disk.But the linux(Fedora 4 kernel2.6.12)automount it
> to /dev/sda.So,can i mount it to /dev/mtd*  and use MTD util to
> read/write/erase the flash disk(nand flash)?How do i it?

The usb sticks have an own controller chip, which handles the FLASH and
provides a block device interface. I'm not aware of a stick, which lets
you access the FLASH transparently.

tglx







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