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11. SATA usage in U-boot
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3	Two ways to operate the hard disk
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5	* Raw read/write block from/to SATA hard disk;
6	* ext2load read file from ext2 filesytem in hard disk
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81.0 How to know the information of SATA hard disk?
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10	=> sata info
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12SATA device 0: Model: ST3320620AS Firm: 3.AAD Ser#:		4QF01ZTN
13	    Type: Hard Disk
14	    Supports 48-bit addressing
15	    Capacity: 305245.3 MB = 298.0 GB (625142448 x 512)
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171.1 How to save the kernel, filesystem, dtb to SATA hard disk with raw?
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19	Notes: 0x1000 sectors = 2 MBytes
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21	wirte kernel
22	=> tftp 40000 /tftpboot/uImage.837x
23	=> sata write 40000 0 2000
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25	write ramdisk
26	=> tftp 40000 /tftpboot/ramdisk.837x
27	=> sata write 40000 2000 8000
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29	write dtb
30	=> tftp 40000 /tftpboot/mpc837xemds.dtb
31	=> sata write 40000 a000 1000
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331.2 How to read the kernel, filesystem, dtb from SATA hard disk with raw?
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35	load kernel
36	=> sata read 200000 0 2000
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38	load ramdisk
39	=> sata read 1000000 2000 8000
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41	load dtb
42	=> sata read 2000000 a000 1000
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44	boot
45	=> bootm 200000 1000000 2000000
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471.3 How to load image from ext2 filesystem in U-boot?
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49	U-boot doesn't support ext2 write to hard disk, so
50	you have to write the image to hard disk under Linux env,
51	before you load image from ext2 filesystem.
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53	=> ext2ls sata 0:1 /
54	<DIR>	    4096 .
55	<DIR>	    4096 ..
56	<DIR>	   16384 lost+found
57		 1352023 uImage.837x
58		 3646377 ramdisk.837x
59		   12288 mpc837xemds.dtb
60		      12 hello.txt
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62	=> ext2load sata 0:1 200000 /uImage.837x
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64	=> ext2load sata 0:1 1000000 /ramdisk.837x
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66	=> ext2load sata 0:1 2000000 /mpc837xemds.dtb
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68	=> bootm 200000 1000000 2000000
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