Bad sectors
Takács Áron
takacs.aron at infracont.hu
Wed Nov 28 04:02:03 EST 2012
Hello,
I have the following problem: I am using a PXA27x based module with two
16bit flash chips (Intel P33) parallel on it. We have been using these
modules without any problems with linux-2.6 kernels and jffs2 filesystem
on top of mtdblock.
Recently I moved to the 3.6-rc4 kernel. Since then the following error
happened to two different modules: they were working for a while (some
days, week), and then suddenly some blocks of the flash became
uneraseable. I get a lot of such error messages while trying to dd the
jffs2 image to /dev/mtdblockX:
[ 478.796166] Buffer I/O error on device mtdblock2, logical block 2085
[ 478.802472] lost page write due to I/O error on mtdblock2
[ 479.068366] mtdblock: erase of region [0x300000, 0x40000] on
"Filesystem" failed
[ 479.075760] end_request: I/O error, dev mtdblock2, sector 16688
I have tried to erase the block with openocd, u-boot and WinCE too, but
all of them failed.
The error occurred after a few writes to the flash (far less than 100k),
so I don't think it was a wearing issue.
Is it theoretically possible the damage sectors by any software error
(bad kernel config)? Or do I have to think of hardware defects (maybe ESD)?
Thank you very much for your help! It is very important to me to exclude
software problems.
Best regards:
Áron
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