Re: [Fwd: M-Sys drivers]

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:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 10:57 AM
To: Donald Green
Subject: Re: [Fwd: M-Sys drivers]

Quoted 5 lines · Donald Green

Hi Andy:

The kernel I have in the iso I'm sending is built for a Geode and

uses

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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

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:

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!

Quoted 38 lines · Donald Green

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:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 10:57 AM
To: Donald Green
Subject: Re: [Fwd: M-Sys drivers]

Quoted 6 lines · Donald Green

Hi Andy:

The kernel I have in the iso I'm sending is built for a Geode and

uses

Quoted 8 lines

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?

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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

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