Serious flash problems - bad inodes?

[Darryl Green]

I assume your fpga is in some way connected to the/a bus, as is your flash.
Are your SURE your fpga logic isn't/wasn't somehow messing up your flash
access? Your problems have sounded like a hardware problem (or a flash
driver problem) all along. Are you sure you can trust the hardware?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luke [mailto:luke_epsilon at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Friday, 19 October 2001 1:54 PM
> To: David Woodhouse
> Cc: linux-mtd at lists.infradead.org; jffs-dev at axis.com
> Subject: Re: Serious flash problems - bad inodes? 
> 
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I have some rather confusing things to say about my flash 
> situation.  As it stands now every time
> I reboot I have the same flash failure as stated in my 
> original post.   If I try to ls or cp or mv
> anything to flash I get INCOMPAT nodetype errors - and the 
> net result is that the flash is
> unaccessible.  Here is the bizarre kicker.  I should have 
> said that I HAD the same problems stated
> above and in my original post up until 10 minutes 
> ago......now if I can figure out WHY?
> 
> A little about my system, my ttyS0 that I am using as a 
> console (at least for now to configure my
> system) is being routed through an FPGA before I get to see 
> it through my serial cable.  As such,
> since it is an FPGA, it needs to be configured after power up 
> of the system.  The FPGA is being
> configured over the parallel I/O lines (0x378 etc).  I made 
> some minor modifications in the
> verilog that is going on my FPGA (that has nothing to do with 
> the computer or ttyS0 per se, but
> instead on some behavior of an exterior peripheral being 
> controlled by the FPGA). The bad INCOMPAT
> nodetype behavior is now fixed - and I have no clue why. 
> 
> Another strange thing is that even though I have had many 
> messages about the flash being
> unformatted and then see every block seemingly being erased 
> --now that the flash is working again,
> all of my original files from last week (when the flash first 
> failed) are intact in the flash.
> weird... 
> 
> I am using the standard physmap.c as my driver by the way - 
> with no modifications - I just have
> the appropriate mem_chip selects set in bios corresponding to 
> the configuration of mtd in
> compiling the kernel.
> 
> Thanks,
> Luke
> 
> ps. I just thought of one thing that probably is important.  
> On boot up, I (or rather the init.d
> startup script) looks on either the flash or in /etc (in that 
> order) for the file, fpga.rbf, to
> download to the FPGA.  This is what it looks like when I 
> manually mount the flash (this happens
> every time on a successful mount)
> 
> $mount /flash
> jffs2_scan_eraseblock(): Magic bitmask 0x1985 not found at 
> 0x000f0000: 0x079d instead
> jffs2_scan_eraseblock(): Magic bitmask 0x1985 not found at 
> 0x000f0004: 0xbc00 instead
> jffs2_scan_eraseblock(): Magic bitmask 0x1985 not found at 
> 0x000f0008: 0x7b80 instead
> jffs2_scan_eraseblock(): Magic bitmask 0x1985 not found at 
> 0x000f000c: 0xb780 instead
> jffs2_scan_eraseblock(): Magic bitmask 0x1985 not found at 
> 0x000f0010: 0xcc2f instead
> jffs2_scan_eraseblock(): Magic bitmask 0x1985 not found at 
> 0x000f0014: 0xc0fe instead
> jffs2_scan_eraseblock(): Magic bitmask 0x1985 not found at 
> 0x000f0018: 0x14c7 instead
> jffs2_scan_eraseblock(): Magic bitmask 0x1985 not found at 
> 0x000f001c: 0xf069 instead
> jffs2_scan_eraseblock(): Magic bitmask 0x1985 not found at 
> 0x000f0020: 0x6bc2 instead
> jffs2_scan_eraseblock(): Magic bitmask 0x1985 not found at 
> 0x000f0024: 0x040d instead
> Further such events for this erase block will not be printed
> Old JFFS2 bitmask found at 0x000f93c0
> You cannot use older JFFS2 filesystems with newer kernels
> JFFS2: Erase block at 0x000f0000 is not formatted. It will be erased
> $
> $ (prompts here - mount has completed)
> $
> and then I get a message that appears 1 to 20 seconds later:
> 
> Newly-erased block contained word 0x580b079d at offset 0x000f0000
> 
> Is it possible that I am trying to access the file in flash 
> for my FPGA before the flash has
> completely mounted and as such I mess up the flash somehow?  
> If so, I still am not sure why it is
> different now - maybe the timing has changed with my new fpga.rbf????
> 
> Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
> 
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
> 
> 
> --- David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> wrote:
> > 
> > luke_epsilon at yahoo.com said:
> > > # ls
> > > Unknown INCOMPAT nodetype FFFF at 0076CC3C 
> > > Unknown INCOMPAT nodetype FFFF at 0076CAC0
> > 
> > Odd. Looks like something may have erased that flash block 
> while it was 
> > mounted. Can you reproduce it?
> 
> > > Last[2] is ff, datum is 85
> > > Write of 68 bytes at 0x0076ecec failed. returned 0, retlen 0
> > 
> > That's a flash driver playing silly buggers. Check you can 
> write to the 
> > whole device.
> > 
> 
> 
> 
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