Re: MMC reported as read only

2008-01-18 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 08:16:52PM +0100, Frantisek Dufka wrote: > Yes, extract via tar (tar zxvf kernel-sdhc*gz) and flash kernel image > either via Nokia linux flasher over USB (flasher-3.0 -f -k zImage -R) or > if you don't have linux PC you can flash directly from the device via my > kernel

Re: MMC reported as read only

2008-01-09 Thread Kevin T. Neely
Since I am receiving the errors below, is there a way to just reinitialize the card? How would I know if I encountered the flash memory bug and made the card unusable? The weird thing is that the tablet appears to still be using the card as virtual memory. thank you, Kevin On 1/7/08, Kevin T.

Re: MMC reported as read only

2008-01-07 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 10:52:46AM -0500, Levi Bard wrote: > > If the filesystem was corrupted you may have to reformat the card. > > > > Try running fsck.vfat on the card $fsck -a (or -r) results in: File system has -7 clusters but only space for 3854 FAT entries that seems bad :) K --

Re: MMC reported as read only

2008-01-07 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 10:37:49AM -0500, Levi Bard wrote: > > On my 770, I am running the latest OS2007HE and have a 2GB MMC card > > inserted, which is used for the maximum swap. > > > > While downloading a file to the MMC card, the device stopped and restated > > itself. Now, writes to the ca

Re: MMC reported as read only

2008-01-07 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 06:24:41PM +0100, Frantisek Dufka wrote: > Eero Tamminen wrote: > > >In worst case it could be: > > https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1204 > > > >I'm not sure whether HE kernel is updated for this. > > > > Anyway, I have backported the code to 770's kernel, see >

Re: MMC reported as read only

2008-01-07 Thread Frantisek Dufka
Eero Tamminen wrote: > In worst case it could be: > https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1204 > > I'm not sure whether HE kernel is updated for this. > The kernel in HE is the same old kernel from OS2006 (AFAIK). I have actually asked about this bug and 770 in the list but got no answe

Re: MMC reported as read only

2008-01-07 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 06:00:15PM +0200, Eero Tamminen wrote: > Hi, > > ext Kevin T. Neely wrote: > >While downloading a file to the MMC card, the device stopped and restated > >itself. Now, writes to the card are rported as an I/O error, and that it > >is a read only filesystem. > > > >ideas

Re: MMC reported as read only

2008-01-07 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Kevin T. Neely wrote: > On my 770, I am running the latest OS2007HE and have a 2GB MMC card inserted, > which is used for the maximum swap. > > While downloading a file to the MMC card, the device stopped and restated > itself. Now, writes to the card are rported as an I/O error, and t

Re: MMC reported as read only

2008-01-07 Thread Levi Bard
> If the filesystem was corrupted you may have to reformat the card. > > Try running fsck.vfat on the card Yeah - in my case, the card was not corrupted; it just got changed to readonly mode for some reason, despite mount showing it in rw mode. I did not have to reformat. -- "My Universe is my

Re: MMC reported as read only

2008-01-07 Thread Levi Bard
> On my 770, I am running the latest OS2007HE and have a 2GB MMC card inserted, > which is used for the maximum swap. > > While downloading a file to the MMC card, the device stopped and restated > itself. Now, writes to the card are rported as an I/O error, and that it is > a read only filesys

MMC reported as read only

2008-01-07 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On my 770, I am running the latest OS2007HE and have a 2GB MMC card inserted, which is used for the maximum swap. While downloading a file to the MMC card, the device stopped and restated itself. Now, writes to the card are rported as an I/O error, and that it is a read only filesystem. ideas