[E3-hacking] Trying to Flashing the backup of the Original Firmware Again

[Nick Griffin]

It looks like when it backs up the NAND its copies the blocks that are bad too making the image bigger,  so if you try and restore the E3 back to the way it was, you can’t because the bad Blocks stop it from installing,  if you want to use Linux on the E3 use it from the Ramdisk in Release V2 here<http://the.earth.li/pub/e3/E3_release_v2.tar.gz>,Just don’t run ams-delta-install then you will not lose the Amstrad E3 Original Firmware. Like I did and I am gutted. I have to now buy another one and its going to cost me £30 because they are not cheap because they are retro, well…😊How can it be retro when the service only was close 8 years ago. A Commodore 64 or ZX Spectrum is retro..😊

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From: Nick Griffin<mailto:span1922 at live.com>
Sent: ‎Monday‎, ‎15‎ ‎April‎ ‎2019 ‎17‎:‎11
To: Discussion of the Amstrad E3 emailer hardware/software<mailto:e3-hacking at earth.li>

Well it didn’t flash, and I think it didn’t erase too so my code is wrong I think… looks like it has bad blocks too and they and made the files bigger in size than the partition..???

This process will completely restore your E3's NAND.
This will try and restore The Amstrad firmware on the device. Are you
sure you wish to continue? [y/N]: y

Starting restore.. This might take a while...
Found e3-nand-backup.0
  Erasing /dev/mtd0
Erase Total 0 Units
 done
  Writing e3-nand-backup.0 to /dev/mtd0
Image 3784704 bytes, NAND page 512 bytes, OOB area 512 bytes, device size 3670016 bytes
Input file does not fit into device: Success
Data did not fit into device, due to bad blocks
: Success
Found e3-nand-backup.1
  Erasing /dev/mtd1
Erase Total 0 Units
 done
  Writing e3-nand-backup.1 to /dev/mtd1
Image 270336 bytes, NAND page 512 bytes, OOB area 512 bytes, device size 262144 bytes
Input file does not fit into device: Success
Data did not fit into device, due to bad blocks
: Success
Found e3-nand-backup.3
  Erasing /dev/mtd3
Erase Total 0 Units
 done
  Writing e3-nand-backup.3 to /dev/mtd3
Image 270336 bytes, NAND page 512 bytes, OOB area 512 bytes, device size 262144 bytes
Input file does not fit into device: Success
Data did not fit into device, due to bad blocks
: Success
Found e3-nand-backup.4
  Erasing /dev/mtd4
Erase Total 0 Units
 done
  Writing e3-nand-backup.4 to /dev/mtd4
Image 29196288 bytes, NAND page 512 bytes, OOB area 512 bytes, device size 28311552 bytes
Input file does not fit into device: Success
Data did not fit into device, due to bad blocks
: Success
Finished restoring the Amstrad E3 Firmware,
Type Reboot to see if the Amstrad E3 splashcreen comes up

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