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From: Peter Barada <peter.barada@gmail.com>
To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: nanddump shows all bad blocks
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:16:10 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F7DEF7A.1090100@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5D308BD40154E4439D82454FE483A50206619995@EVS4.nam.ci.root>

> When I do this:
> root:/> nanddump  -l 0x20000 -s 0x60000   --bb=padbad -f testfile
> /dev/mtd0
>
> It shows that the ECC has failed, but I know there is good data in there
> as that I can read the data in uboot.
> 0x60000-0x7ffff holds my uboot environment.
>
> ECC failed: 429
> ECC corrected: 0
> Number of bad blocks: 4
> Number of bbt blocks: 0
> Block size 131072, page size 2048, OOB size 64
> Dumping data starting at 0x00060000 and ending at 0x00080000...
>
> My 'testfile' is full of 0xFFs as the option specifies (padbad:  dump
> flash data, substituting 0xFF for any bad blocks).
>
> I know mtd0 is mapped to that partition:
> ...
> Creating 4 MTD partitions on "MT29F2G08ABAEAWP":
> 0x000000000000-0x000000080000 : "bootloader(nand)"
> 0x000000080000-0x000000880000 : "linux kernel(nand)"
> 0x000000880000-0x000006c80000 : "file system(nand)"
> 0x000006c80000-0x000010000000 : "file system(ubifs)"
> ...
>
> Any idea how I can make this work?
>
Sounds as if the kernel is using a different ECC method to read the data
than what u-boot used to write it...

-- 
Peter Barada
peter.barada@gmail.com

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-05 19:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-05 17:04 nanddump shows all bad blocks Bishop, Mark
2012-04-05 19:16 ` Peter Barada [this message]
2012-04-05 19:38   ` Bishop, Mark
2012-04-05 20:18     ` Bishop, Mark
2012-04-05 20:22     ` Bishop, Mark
2012-04-05 21:00     ` Mike Frysinger

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