ubiattach issue

[Vikram Narayanan]

Hello Dimitar,

Cc-ing Artem

On 9/21/2012 12:52 AM, Dimitar Penev wrote:
> Hi Vikram,
>
> Thank you for your response.
>
> It is a check out from http://git.infradead.org/?p=mtd-utils.git
> Git signature 36d8de81049c9c908740b690c664b5bd3703ccd6

I tested with this checkout in my nandsim under x86. But couldn't 
reproduce the issue. (But I was on 2.6.38.8 kernel).

Could you also post the corresponding kernel logs when you issued the 
ubiattach command? That should give more hints.

~Vikram

>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vikram Narayanan" <vikram186 at gmail.com>
> To: "Dimitar Penev" <dpn at switchfin.org>
> Cc: <linux-mtd at lists.infradead.org>
> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 9:25 PM
> Subject: Re: ubiattach issue
>
>
>> On 9/20/2012 2:14 PM, Dimitar Penev wrote:
>>> Hi Gents,
>>>
>>> I am facing an issue with ubiattach on Linux kernel 3.0.8
>>> On our target we have nand flash with mtd layer on top.
>>> The logs attached below.
>>>
>>> Can you please give me a pointer?
>>>
>>>
>>> /bin # ubinfo -a
>>> UBI version: 1
>>> Count of UBI devices: 0
>>> UBI control device major/minor: 10:62
>>>
>>> /bin # ubiformat /dev/mtd5 -y --vid-hdr-offset="2048"
>>> ubiformat: mtd5 (nand), size 511705088 bytes (488.0 MiB), 3904
>>> eraseblocks of 131072 bytes (128.0 KiB), min. I/O size 2048 bytes
>>> libscan: scanning eraseblock 3903 -- 100 % complete
>>> ubiformat: 3904 eraseblocks have valid erase counter, mean value is 3
>>> ubiformat: formatting eraseblock 3903 -- 100 % complete
>>>
>>> /bin # ubiattach /dev/ubi_ctrl --mtdn=5 --devn=0 --vid-hdr-offset="2048"
>>> ubiattach: error!: cannot attach mtd5
>>> error 25 (Inappropriate ioctl for device)
>>
>> Before any pointers, which version of mtd-utils are you using?
>> How to:
>> (http://linux-mtd.infradead.org/faq/general.html#L_compile_mtd)
>>
>> ~Vikram
>>
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