Re: [Yaffs] The nandflash chip seems to be making badblocks …

Yi,

On 3/9/07, yi zhang <zhangyi66cn@yahoo.com.cn> wrote:
> My system was based on PXA270，consists of
> linux2.6.9 + intel patches + cramfs +　yaffs,
> nandflash was samsung K9F1208, 64M. and this chip was mounted as 3 yaffs
> partitions, After a period of usage of this system, there may appear a lot
> of badblocks,we can see the badblock messages in the kernel booting
> messages, and sometime one of the 3 partitions could be damaged entirely.
> the partitons which marked as badblocks cannot be erased by the 'mkyaffs'
> tool.when this occurs, the worst way is that the nandflash chip could be
> changed to another nandflash chip.

can you please try testing on a bare (i.e. freshly-erased) partition?
So, not to bring possible mkyaffs problems in -- to locate the kernel
problems first?

I'd expect that the problem is yaffs2 rewrites bad block marker in
OOB. Is this chip a 512b page or 2k page?

Vitaly