SamyGO

Posted: **Wed Jan 02, 2013 12:25 am**

About reformatting mtd_rwcommon or mtd_rwarea on ES8000,
The wiki page is:
http://wiki.samygo.tv/index.php5/Format ... td_rwarea/

BUT, in serial TDM menu there is no format feature anymore.

Device manager menu is now:

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              [ Device Manager - TOP Debug Menu] 
        ------------------------------------
           01  : Start DeviceManager 
           02  : Stop DeviceManager 
           03  : Suspend Mode Test - Sleep
           04  : Suspend Mode Test - WakeUp
           05  : Start Monitoring
           06  : Stop Monitoring
           07  : Start Stress Test
           08  : Stop Stress Test
        ------------------------------------
           11  : USB Test 
           12  : DLNA, FLASH, ODD, HDD, S.Connect Test 
        ====================================
           21  : Print ALL Device Info 
           22  : Print Device Info with KEY 
           23  : Print ALL Partition Info 
        ====================================
           71  : Load USB Modules & Start Monitoring 
           72  : Unload USB Modules & Stop Monitoring 
           73  : Enable DeviceManager 
           74  : Disable DeviceManager 
           75  : Start Stress Test 
           76  : Stop Stress Test 
        ====================================
           80  : Print Deadlock Status 
        ====================================
           FF : Exit 
        ====================================

Submenu 11 is:
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              [ USB Debug Menu] 
        ------------------------------------
           01  : USB - PRINT USB Device Info 
           02  : USB - PRINT USB Device Info By ID 
        ------------------------------------
           11  : PTP - Select PTP Device 
           12  : PTP - PRINT Object Handle List 
           13  : PTP - PRINT FILE Info & Partial Read 
           14  : PTP - Device Checker 
        ====================================
           FF : Exit 
        ====================================

The only way to partially clean mtd_rwcommon is from service menu (Reset SmartHUB) which deletes /mtd_rwcommon/common and /mtd_rwcommon/widgets

So be very careful on ES8000 (fw 2003.4) because there is no way to safely clean the writable partitions (as far as I know)

Posted: **Wed Jan 02, 2013 6:45 am**

not 11, but 12:

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12 (DLNA, FLASH, ODD, HDD, MoIP Test)

Too much prosecco for New Year?

SpoilerShow

Posted: **Wed Jan 02, 2013 4:18 pm**

Nope, only a bottle of Veuve Clicquot

And you?

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        DBG> : 0x12

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              [ MISC Debug Menu] 
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           01  : PRINT DLNA Device Info 
           02  : PRINT FLASH Device Info 
           03  : PRINT ODD Device Info 
           04  : PRINT HDD Device Info 
           05  : PRINT AllShare S.Connect Device Info 
        ====================================
           FF : Exit 
        ====================================
        DBG> : 0x

Posted: **Wed Jan 02, 2013 4:43 pm**

Me too, not too much, but enough

Seems you`re right. Here is no required submenu anymore or it is moved somewhere...

Posted: **Fri Jan 25, 2013 7:32 am**

Same problem on ES6100 with T-MST10PDEUC_1030.0. What's about formatting mtd_rwarea or mtd_rwcommon directly from samygo shell for example like this:
echo > /dev/stl0/21 ? (If TV not bricked of course).
Who can test this idea?

Posted: **Fri Jan 25, 2013 7:46 am**

If this won`t brick (it shouldn`t), the proper syntax (check /etc/profile):
Other users - don`t try this if you don`t know what these commands do!

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export MTD_RWAREA=/dev/mmcblk0p12 
umount -l /mtd_rwarea 2> /dev/null
fat.format -F 32 -s 1 -S 1024 $MTD_RWAREA
mount -t rfs $MTD_RWAREA /mtd_rwarea

But i wonder why do you need to format if you have root access? Usually formatting is goal to clean up wrong start.sh and in this situation no root access is possible. Anyway, you`ve got the info

p.s. for mtd_rwcommon:

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export MTD_RWCOMMON=/dev/mmcblk0p21
umount -l /mtd_rwcommon
fat.format -F 32 -s 2 -S 4096 $MTD_RWCOMMON
mount -t rfs $MTD_RWCOMMON /mtd_rwcommon

for proper partition numbers check /mtd_exe/partition.txt

Posted: **Fri Jan 25, 2013 3:31 pm**

Some files disappeared from /mtd_rwcommon and not be restored with uep.b automatically as before. Your code is very useful with little correction:
I used "umount -l /mtd_rwcommon" instead "umount /mtd_rwcommon" because /mtd_rwcommon was busy.
Thanks!
PS. Lost files don't appears after formatting but this another problem as I see.

Posted: **Sat Jan 26, 2013 7:49 pm**

juuso wrote:If this won`t brick (it shouldn`t), the proper syntax (check /etc/profile):
But i wonder why do you need to format if you have root access? Usually formatting is goal to clean up wrong start.sh and in this situation no root access is possible. Anyway, you`ve got the info
for proper partition numbers check /mtd_exe/partition.txt

Because I'm making tests often and sometimes a simple typo could brick the device.
So I need a way to reformat in that case.

Unfortunately they removed the option from the serial menu.

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