Erasebug on AMD flashes

Shawn Jin xiaogeng_jin at agilent.com
Wed Mar 17 17:39:30 EST 2004


dkey wrote:

>> we are using jffs2 on the dbox2 and AMD flash chips, but since rev. 1.96 of
> cfi_cmdset_0002.c we can't erase the flashes. rev. 1.94 works without
> problems.
> here are some debug infos, tell me if you need more!
> 
> when we want to erase the flashes with MEMERASE ioctl, we get these errors:
> 
> 
> Erase at 0x00080000 failed immediately: errno -5
> MTD do_erase_oneblock(): flash internal timeout
FYI.
I guess you have chips interleaved, right? I have the same problem with 
erase and even worse since write doesn't work for me either. According 
to David Vrabel, it may be broken when chips are interleaved.

-Regards,
Shawn.



More information about the linux-mtd mailing list