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Subject: [ts-7000] fdisk behavior on the SD card
From: Larry <>
Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2008 11:02:09 -0500
To all
   I have a TS-7390 and have been trying to set up a larger SD card for 
use doing native development right on the board.
I've been trying to partition both a 4 gig and a 2 gig card with no 
success. Thanks to all who've had suggestions to help.

  Here's what I've found out, and I'm posting it to save others the 
trouble I've gone through to figure this out.

1. If you are using the TS9445 board for the console, it apparently 
reroutes JP1. If you use this board, the big toggle switch
on that board supercedes JP1 (switches between MTD boot and SD boot)

2. Apparently TS either didn't implement it or has a bug in the SD card 
driver, making native partitioning not possible.
    fdisk works fine on USB memory sticks, but will not work on the SD 
card. It goes through the motions, and appears
    to work, but actually accomplishes nothing.

3. You CAN dd to the card, write to the card, etc.

4. There are some utilities to otherwise manipulate the card at:
    ftp://ftp.embeddedarm.com/ts-arm-sbc/ts-7300-linux/binaries/ts-utils/
    sdlock and sdctl -these have some interesting features, including 
erase, unlock, readonly, etc. but they don't solve the
     fdisk problem.

If anyone knows any different about the native fdisk (both the compiled 
one and the busybox one) then please correct me.

Thanks
Larry

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