[Fwd: M-Sys drivers] ; Re: DiskOnChip 2000 (DOC 2000) woes.

[Andy Kennedy]

Andy Kennedy wrote:
> 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:
>   
[quote=http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/Disk-on-Chip-HOWTO]

 2. The TrueFFS Linux driver package contains three different folders:
   
      + Documentation: this contains a PDF document describing the various
        functions of TrueFFS.
       
      + dformat_5_1_4_37: this contains a utility dformat, which is used to
        update the firmware on the DiskOnChip (DOC) and to create low level
        partitions on the DOC.
       
      + doc-linux-5_1_4_20: this contains patches, initrd scripts and other
        utilities.
       
   
 3. Now apply the patch to the kernel. We will use the linux-2_4_7-patch file
    that is present in linux_binary.5_1_4/doc-linux-5_1_4_20/driver. The
    following commands are used for this purpose:
   
    cd linux_binary.5_1_4/doc-linux-5_1_4_20/driver
   
    patch -p1 -d /usr/src/linux < linux-2_4_7-patch
   
    This will create a directory named doc in the linux/drivers/block
    directory.

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Okay, so do I have to install the 5.1.4 DOC driver to make the DOC2000 work with 2.6.22.1???  Should I back up to 2.4.18 like the howto says?

Andy