suddently, can't use "cp jffs2.img /dev/mtd0" anymore

[rolf liu]

I did it every time before I want to write to it :)
It just works yesterday. Today I applied the patch and recompiled the
kernel 2.6.12.
It stops working :(


On 7/20/05, Josh Boyer <jdub at us.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 11:40 -0700, rolf liu wrote:
> > Yesterday, I can use "cp jffs2.img  /dev/mtd0" to copy the jffs2 image
> > to mtd. Today, I applied the cvs snapshot of mtd to kernel and
> > compiled it. Suddenly, the "cp" command stops working.
> >
> > it tells me:
> > MTD do_write_buffer(): software timeout
> > cp: writing '/dev/mtd0' : Input/output error
> >
> > any idea?
> 
> Did you erase the chip before writing to it like that again?  If not,
> you'll need to do:
> 
> flash_eraseall /dev/mtd0
> 
> Then try your copy again.
> 
> josh
> 
>