> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron Botsis [mailto:aaron@digitalmafia.org]
> Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 5:40 PM
> To: ipaq@handhelds.org
> Subject: [iPAQ] /dev/flash driver & wince restore question...
>
>
>
> would:
>
> cat flash_00c00000.bin flash_00800000.bin \
> flash_00400000.bin flash_00000000.bin > flash.bin
> dd if=flash.bin of=/dev/flash
>
> work as one would expect? or are some of the flash regions write
> protected by the block driver?
DO NOT DO THAT. It will not work. When you overwrite the root file system in
flash the kernel will crash before dd completes.
--George
George France, france@crl.dec.com
Cambridge Research Laboratory, Compaq Computer Corporation
One Cambridgecenter MS: CRL
Cambridge, MA 02142 USA
Phone: (617) 551-7665
FAX: (617) 551-7650
Received on Mon Oct 9 15:02:54 2000
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