Unale to get MTD device info

[Rahanesh]

Hi Radha Mohan ,

Thanks a lot for responding.

I have few doubts regarding your reply.

In the /dev/ partition of Linux i cannot see any mtd char device. Only 
mtdblock is there.

Can i convert the block devices to character devices? if so how?

Is it possible for me to erase mtdblock0 and copy to mtdblock0 using any 
other utilities?

I am a newbie to all this. Please give your valuable suggestions

Thanks
Rahanesh


Radha Mohan wrote:
> hi rahanesh,
>
> The mtd-utils do not work on block devices like mtdblock0. Use mtd0 
> instead. The mtd0 is char device of mtdblock0.
>
> -- Mohan
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Rahanesh <rahanesh at tataelxsi.co.in>
> *To:* linux-mtd at lists.infradead.org
> *Sent:* Monday, 24 August, 2009 10:53:06 AM
> *Subject:* Unale to get MTD device info
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have four mtdblocks in my flash .
> mtdblock0 -> Primary bootloader
> mtdblock1 -> uboot
> mtdblock2 -> JFFS
> mtdbloack3-> config
>
> During Linux booting , it mounts mtdblock2 to a temp folder which can 
> be seen as a part of ramdisk(root file system of linux)
>
> Now from Linux i need to flash a new jffs image to mtdblock2 itself.
>
> With the support from this mailing list i have copied mtd-utilities 
> package into Linux. Now i have flash_eraseall and flash_cp commands.
>
> But when i run flash_eraseall  i gett the following error
>
>
> flash_eraseall: /dev/mtdblock1: *unable to get MTD device info
>
> *Please help on this!!!!!!!
>
> Thanks
> Rahanesh
>
>
>
>
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