j.chitte wrote:
> Hi,
>
> my 7250 flash has just gone bad. Following a reboot it get this:
>
> yaffs tragedy: no more eraased blocks
> !!!!!!!!! Allocator out !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[...]
>
>
> then "normal" functioning proceeds as best it can.
>
>
> I don't know why this happened. I have had not such errors in the past but
> had noted yaffs2 getting VERY slow to mount as noted in a previous thread.
> (slow >= 90s)
>
> I had intended to reboot without the console since I wanted to test something
> on AM0, so I took off JP2 and rebooted. However , ssh was unable to connect
> and it was unclear what state the board was in so I put JP2 back on rebooted.
>
> Now I get this shit. Which looks like burn out. But why has this hit with no
> warning?
>
> I read somewhere that "jessoff" of TS had provided a means to reset the bad
> blocks and that most of the boards that came back just needed the flash
> clearing (it was not really burnt out flash).
Actually I think it was Eddie... but the utility is here:
ftp://ftp.embeddedARM.com/tmp/erase_BB/flash_eraseall_ignoreBB
There is also a vmlinux.bin kernel image in the same directory which
allows bad blocks to be erased, but depending on the kernel you have
this may or may not be necessary.
> Anyone know how to clear the bad blocks?
>
> TIA.
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