Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: [Bug #11382] e1000e: 2.6.27-rc1 corrupts EEPROM/NVM | | From | Krzysztof Halasa <> | | Date | Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:23:11 +0200 |
Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> writes:
> Still, what confuses me a little bit -- the EEPROM of the card is set to
> all 0xff, once the corruption happens. Isn't that a quite a coincidence,
> that bytes representing "nothing" in this context are used?
Perhaps the entire chip has been erased with the "ERAL" (erase all)
command. Requires previously issued EWEN (erase/write enable).
Each command seems to require several writes to the EEPROM control
register.
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Krzysztof Halasa
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