[Fwd: M-Sys drivers]

[Andy Kennedy]

Good theory.  The thing that gets me is that I see this same error when
I fdisk a device like /dev/sda1 in place of /dev/sda.  Is it possible
that the nftl driver is handing out the wrong partition information?  Is
there a way that I can know for sure that the device was formatted
correctly by the nftl driver?

I'm having this same problem with the MD-2800-D08 and MD-2202-D32-X.

If you development folks have any suggestions I'm game.  Please
enlighten me!

Donald Green wrote:
> I've put the config put up. It is for a 2.6.20 kernel. I won't have a
> chance to boot the image you made until sometime early next week but I'd
> be happy to give it a try. It sounds like you had the same experience I
> did. I loaded the nftl driver and it formatted the DOC. I was theorizing
> that this creates an incorrect bad sector map and that that could be
> corrected by using dformat. My process fails when I try to complete the
> fdisk formatting operation by commiting the changes with the w command.
>
>
> -Don
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Kennedy [mailto:akennedy at techmoninc.com] 
> Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 10:57 AM
> To: Donald Green
> Subject: Re: [Fwd: M-Sys drivers]
>
> Donald Green wrote:
>   
>> Hi Andy:
>>
>>
>>   The kernel I have in the iso I'm sending is built for a Geode and
>>     
> uses
>   
>> the natsemi Ethernet driver, will these settings work? If not let me
>> know what processor and Ethernet driver your target has and I can
>> rebuild it.
>>
>> -Don
>>   
>>     
>
> I'm sure that that will work. . . it isn't much different from the 
> Pentium-MMX (they're all pretty much the same until you get to the PII 
> anyways).  There would probably be some obscure functionality 
> differences, but if I can get a good kernel config - hey, that's the 
> price I'm willing to pay.  Can you also send me a config file and 
> version of the kernel you have?
>
> If you'd be willing to try it, I'd like for you to attempt to load my 
> floppy on your computer to see if you can mount the nftla1 -- one issue,
>
> however, is that when I load the nftl driver (I have it as a module in 
> the initrd), it formats the DOC -- which may blow your system away. . . 
> but if you are willing to take the risk I'd like to know if my 
> configuration works.  It is kernel 2.6.22.1 without any patches and then
>
> there's BusyBox.  I don't know the BusyBox version but if you boot the 
> disk, you'll see the version.  Booting the disk is harmless -- it is 
> just loading that module that seems to really hose up everything.
>
> Thanks again for your help!
> Andy
>
>
>
>