Re: [Gumstix-users] Corrupted flash

[Don A. <do...@gu...>]

Ah, that makes sense, Paul.

Perhaps this information about JTAG and our use of their Wiggler will be what you need:

http://www.gumstix.org/tikiwiki/tiki-view_faq.php?faqId=4&highlight=wiggler#q158

which leads to

http://www.gumstix.org/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=JTAG




Don
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At 9:03 AM +1030 1/19/06, Paul Coldrey wrote:
>Hi Don,
>
>Thanks for the response - I had found that one and I was hoping to be
>able to do it myself because:
>1. the postage from Australia would be many times the $10 cost
>2. the round-trip time may be quite high
>3. I wasn't doing anything at all funny when it died so I'm nervous that
>I may have to repeat this procedure.
>4. The place I'm working for sends PCB's off to be fab'ed quite
>frequently and employs a few techs so even if it's quite an involved
>process to create a rig to do the reflash it would be a worthwhile
>hassle given 1, 2 & 3.
>
>On the wiki page:
>
>   http://www.gumstix.org/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=U-Boot
>
>In the section:
>
>   "Loading new stuff to flash"
>
>There is the line:
>
>   "if you unrecoverably write to your flash, and it's no longer
>   erasable or writable by u-boot, we can provide a tool which will
>   generally recover the flash, but it involves completely wiping all
>   the data off the gumstix and starting over from scratch"
>
>This is what I was hoping to find (and what I expected might be
>downloadable from the wiki from a link which could appear right next to
>the above sentence).
>
>Does anyone have this tool??
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>   Paul.
>
>Don Anderson wrote:
>
>>Hi Paul
>>
>>The information about our reflash service is located in the product section of gumstix.com. here is the link:
>>
>>http://www.gumstix.com/oscommerce-2.2ms2/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=141
>>
>>
>>I'll see about adding a link to this service from the wiki.
>>
>>
>>
>>Don
>>++++++++++++++++++++
>>
>>
>> 
>>>.........
>>>
>>>Also, on the wiki it mentions that there is a method for reflashing the chips but strangely there is no information on how to do this. Surely the wiki would be the perfect place to distribute this information??
>>>
>>>Cheers,
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>  Paul.
>> 
>
>
>
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