[c-nsp] Bad Flash?

[Larry Smith]

On Thursday 23 February 2006 19:15, David Coulson wrote:
> I moved a working 16mb linear flash card from an old 3640 into a 7206 w/
>   IO-FE today, and it flat out refused to do anything with it. I can't
> even format it. I know that a card which is formated for a 3600 won't be
> read on a 7200, but why can't I even reformat it on the 7200?
>
> 16384K bytes of Flash PCMCIA card at slot 0 (Sector size 128K).
> 125824K bytes of ATA PCMCIA card at slot 1 (Sector size 512 bytes).
> 4096K bytes of Flash internal SIMM (Sector size 256K).
> Configuration register is 0x102
>
> core-ar2#show slot0:
> Open device slot0 failed (Bad device info block)
> core-ar2#format slot0
> Format operation may take a while. Continue? [confirm]
> Format operation will destroy all data in "slot0:".  Continue? [confirm]
> Enter volume ID (up to 64 chars)[default slot0]:
>
> %Error formatting slot0 (Bad sector not allowed in region)
>

That last sentence looks "ominous" (bad sector)
Suggestion would be to put it back in the 3600 and see if it formats correctly 
or if it in fact has a "bad" spot.  Most drives, flash or otherwise, cannot 
have bad spots in the first X sectors (where the superblock or whatever 
goes).

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Larry Smith
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