inappropriate ioctl when attaching

[Ricard Wanderlof]

On Wed, 11 May 2011, David Wagner wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I put a ubi image on a sheevaplug but got those errors:
> uncorrectable error :
> UBI error: ubi_io_read: error -74 (ECC error) while reading 512 bytes
> from PEB 39:512, read 512 bytes
>
> So I tried to use ubiformat and ubiattach but after a successful
> ubiformat, I got the following error:
>
> # ubiattach -p /dev/mtd2
> ubiattach: error!: cannot attach "/dev/mtd2"
>           error 25 (Inappropriate ioctl for device)
>
> I've never seen this and google doesn't help much. I could flash a jffs2
> image w/o problem.

What happens if you do ubiattach -m 2 instead, i.e. specifying the mtd 
number rather than the complete device path?

/Ricard
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