Get error -74 (ECC error) during ubiattach

[Oleksij Rempel]

Am 20.12.2014 um 10:27 schrieb Richard Weinberger:
> Hi!
> 
> Am 20.12.2014 um 04:43 schrieb t kevin:
>> So for uncorrectable ECC error ( e.g., bad block) the only way out is
>> to do a fresh ubiformat?
>> For device like harddisk you get bad blocks all the time, if it is not
>> in the critical sector things can be fixed as much as possible by fsck
>> so I was looking for something like fsck.ubifs.
> 
> An uncorrectable ECC error means that more bits flipped than your ECC
> algorithm can fix.

At same time uncorrectable ECC error mean, the page was erase and there
is no ECC sum. Something should be written to create ECC.

> All you can do is trying to erase the block and hoping that it will
> work again.
> 
>>>> Is it because the background thread "ubi_bgt2d" has not started yet so
>>>> no one could do the data scrubbing during ubiattach stage?
>>>
>>> UBI does scrubbing if it faces bit-flips (correctable ECC errors).
>>>
>>>> Is it possible to do something like a fsck.ubifs to fix this issue?
>>>
>>> No. PEB 404 is bad.
>>> Is it always the same block?
>>
>> Yes, it is always the same block. What got me confused is below
>> message telling bad PEBs is still 0.
>> UBI: number of good PEBs:        1920
>> UBI: number of bad PEBs:         0
>> UBI: number of corrupted PEBs:   0
> 
> I agree that this is a bit strange.
> UBI treats a block as bad if it has a bad block marker or it detects
> so while scrubbing.
> 
> But it can also happen that you get a block with bad ECC if a powercut happened
> while erasing it.
> This is why UBI does not automatically mark it as bad while scanning.
> Such a block will be erased.
> 
> Thanks,
> //richard
> 
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Oleksij

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