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Dd February 27, 2011
Dt FLASHCTL 8
Os
Sh NAME
Nm flashctl
Nd a program to manipulate flash devices
Sh SYNOPSIS
Nm
Ar device
Ar command
Oo
Ar arg Oo ...
Oc
Oc
Sh DESCRIPTION
Nm
could be used to invoke low level operations specific to flash devices.
It is used by specifying a device to manipulate,
the command to perform, and any arguments the command may require.
Sh DEVICE COMMANDS
The following commands may be used on flash devices:
Bl -tag -width erase_offset_size
It Cm badblocks
List the bad blocks on the device.
It Cm erase Ar offset Ar size
Erase
Ar size
amount of flash memory from
Ar offset .
Size could be
Ar all ,
which means the rest of the flash after
Ar offset
will be erased.
It Cm identify
Identify the specified device, displaying the device's vendor, product
strings, and the device's capabilities.
It Cm markbad Ar offset
Mark the block given by its
Ar offset
as bad.
El
Sh SEE ALSO
Xr flash 4
Sh HISTORY
The
Nm
command first appeared in
Nx 6.0 .
Sh AUTHORS
The
Nm
command was written by
An Adam Hoka .
