[Avila] Redboot fis error

[Ahmet Basagalar]

I have tried to unlock the specific section, did not work and then I 
unlocked the whole flash, that did not work either. I am sending it back to 
Gateworks.

Ahmet
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kevin Fisk" <kevin.fisk at waveteq.com>
To: "Avila" <avila at lists.unixstudios.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: [Avila] Redboot fis error
Subject: [Avila] > Try unlocking it first. I had a similar error and while my location was 
> different I had to specifically unlocked the section before 'fis init'. 
> Could be a bug? I haven't investigated thoroughly enough to understand but 
> this worked for me.
>
> Cheers, Kevin
>
> David Acker wrote:
>> Ahmet Basagalar wrote:
>>> David,
>>>
>>> I have just tried 'fis init -f'. it gave me a similar error message
>>>
>>> About to initialize [format] FLASH image system - continue (y/n)? y
>>> *** Initialize FLASH Image System
>>> ... Erase from 0x50080000-0x50fe0000: 
>>> ...........................................................Err = a2
>>>
>>>   initialization failed 0x507e0000: Error trying to erase
>>> ... Unlock from 0x50fe0000-0x51000000: .
>>> ... Erase from 0x50fe0000-0x51000000: Err = a2
>>>
>>> Error erasing FIS directory at 0x50fe0000: Error trying to erase
>>> ... Lock from 0x50fe0000-0x51000000: .
>>>
>>> In this case, I am going to assume that this is a bad flash and RMA this 
>>> unit back to Gateworks. Any other suggestions before sending it back?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Ahmet
>>
>> Nope.  It sounds like the flash died.
>> -Ack
>>
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