DOC will formatted again and again

DOC will formatted again and again

[Jens Nixdorf]

Hi,

i've send this posting some days before, but didn't get an answer and 
also didn't found a solution somewhere else. Therefore i send my 
question again:

--snip--

now, with your help, my DoC is acknowledged by the system. But the next
problem is underway ;)
Every time the system is booting, it try to format the DoC. It has two
bad blocks, and therefore i think it starts over and over again. How can
i get rid of it? nftl_format from the mtd-utils still doesnt work, it
brings  still the message:

ioctl(MEMGETINFO): Inappropriate ioctl for device

Here is a part of my dmesg-output after a fresh boot:

NFTL driver: nftlcore.c $Revision: 1.82 $, nftlmount.c $Revision: 1.25 $
NFTL_notify_add for DiskOnChip 2000
NFTL_setup
Formatting block 1964
Error erasing at 0x1eb0000
Error while formatting block 1964
Formatting block 6028
Error erasing at 0x5e30000
Error while formatting block 6028
Cannot calculate an NFTL geometry to match size of 0x853c0.
Using C:1003 H:16 S:34 (== 0x85360 sects)
  nftla:<6>NFTL_request
NFTL read request of 0x2 sectors @ 0 (req->nr_sectors == 8)
NFTL read request completed OK
NFTL_request
NFTL read request of 0x2 sectors @ 2 (req->nr_sectors == 6)
NFTL read request completed OK
NFTL_request
NFTL read request of 0x2 sectors @ 4 (req->nr_sectors == 4)
NFTL read request completed OK
NFTL_request
NFTL read request of 0x2 sectors @ 6 (req->nr_sectors == 2)
NFTL read request completed OK
  nftla1

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Thanks in Advance, Jens

Re: DOC will formatted again and again

[David Woodhouse]

jens.nixdorf@embesso.com said:
>  i've send this posting some days before, but didn't get an answer and
>  also didn't found a solution somewhere else. Therefore i send my
> question again: 

You need to ensure the offending blocks are _marked_ as bad so we don't try 
to format them again. Not sure why we don't do that anyway when the format 
fails.

Where did you get nftl_format and how are you trying to run it?

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dwmw2