mtd erase error

[Talat Ozyagcilar]

Hi All,

I am trying to write a rootfs on flash.  I have made an jffs2 image of
the rootfs and I am using "cat rootfs.jffs2 > /dev/mtdblock/3", but I
am getting the following output:
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# cat rootfs.jffs2 > /dev/mtdblock/3
mtdblock_open
ok
mtdblock: read on "RootFS" at 0x282000, size 0x1000
mtdblock: write on "RootFS" at 0x0, size 0x1000
mtdblock: write on "RootFS" at 0x1000, size 0x1000
mtdblock: write on "RootFS" at 0x2000, size 0x1000
mtdblock: write on "RootFS" at 0x3000, size 0x1000
mtdblock: write on "RootFS" at 0x4000, size 0x1000
mtdblock: write on "RootFS" at 0x5000, size 0x1000
mtdblock: write on "RootFS" at 0x6000, size 0x1000
mtdblock: write on "RootFS" at 0x7000, size 0x1000
mtdblock: write on "RootFS" at 0x8000, size 0x1000
mtdblock: write on "RootFS" at 0x9000, size 0x1000
mtdblock: write on "RootFS" at 0xa000, size 0x1000
mtdblock: write on "RootFS" at 0xb000, size 0x1000
mtdblock: write on "RootFS" at 0xc000, size 0x1000
mtdblock: write on "RootFS" at 0xd000, size 0x1000
mtdblock: write on "RootFS" at 0xe000, size 0x1000
mtdblock: write on "RootFS" at 0xf000, size 0x1000
mtdblock: write on "RootFS" at 0x10000, size 0x1000
mtdblock: write on "RootFS" at 0x11000, size 0x1000
mtdblock: write on "RootFS" at 0x12000, size 0x1000
mtdblock: write on "RootFS" at 0x13000, size 0x1000
mtdblock: write on "RootFS" at 0x14000, size 0x1000
mtdblock: write on "RootFS" at 0x15000, size 0x1000
mtdblock: write on "RootFS" at 0x16000, size 0x1000
mtdblock: write on "RootFS" at 0x17000, size 0x1000
mtdblock: write on "RootFS" at 0x18000, size 0x1000
mtdblock: write on "RootFS" at 0x19000, size 0x1000
mtdblock: write on "RootFS" at 0x1a000, size 0x1000
mtdblock: write on "RootFS" at 0x1b000, size 0x1000
mtdblock: write on "RootFS" at 0x1c000, size 0x1000
mtdblock: write on "RootFS" at 0x1d000, size 0x1000
mtdblock: write on "RootFS" at 0x1e000, size 0x1000
mtdblock: write on "RootFS" at 0x1f000, size 0x1000
mtdblock: write on "RootFS" at 0x20000, size 0x1000
mtdblock: writing cached data for "RootFS" at 0x0, size 0x20000
Chip reports voltage low on erase: status 0xa8
mtdblock: erase of region [0x0, 0x20000] on "RootFS" failed
end_request: I/O error, dev 1f:03 (mtdblock), sector 256
mtdblock: write on "RootFS" at 0x21000, size 0x1000
mtdblock: writing cached data for "RootFS" at 0x0, size 0x20000
Chip reports voltage low on erase: status 0xa8
mtdblock: erase of region [0x0, 0x20000] on "RootFS" failed
end_request: I/O error, dev 1f:03 (mtdblock), sector 264
mtdblock: write on "RootFS" at 0x22000, size 0x1000
mtdblock: writing cached data for "RootFS" at 0x0, size 0x20000
Chip reports voltage low on erase: status 0xa8
mtdblock: erase of region [0x0, 0x20000] on "RootFS" failed
end_request: I/O error, dev 1f:03 (mtdblock), sector 272
mtdblock: write on "RootFS" at 0x23000, size 0x1000
mtdblock: writing cached data for "RootFS" at 0x0, size 0x20000
Chip reports voltage low on erase: status 0xa8
mtdblock: erase of region [0x0, 0x20000] on "RootFS" failed
end_request: I/O error, dev 1f:03 (mtdblock), sector 280
mtdblock: write on "RootFS" at 0x24000, size 0x1000
mtdblock: writing cached data for "RootFS" at 0x0, size 0x20000
Chip reports voltage low on erase: status 0xa8
mtdblock: erase of region [0x0, 0x20000] on "RootFS" failed
end_request: I/O error, dev 1f:03 (mtdblock), sector 288
mtdblock: write on "RootFS" at 0x25000, size 0x1000
mtdblock: writing cached data for "RootFS" at 0x0, size 0x20000
Chip reports voltage low on erase: status 0xa8
mtdblock: erase of region [0x0, 0x20000] on "RootFS" failed
end_request: I/O error, dev 1f:03 (mtdblock), sector 296
mtdblock: write on "RootFS" at 0x26000, size 0x1000
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Is this really a hardware problem, or has anybody come across this? 
Any help is appreciated...

Regards