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[ts-7000] Re: yaffs tragedy: no more eraased blocks

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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: yaffs tragedy: no more eraased blocks
From: "j.chitte" <>
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 01:44:22 -0000
--- In  Gary Wicker <> wrote:
>
> j, when I ran into this a year or so ago I did some google searches on yaffs
> and lots of interesting things come up about it.  Suffice it to say that we
> switched to jffs2 shortly thereafter and have had zero issues.  I've fielded
> lots of high reliability systems using jffs2 with good success.  I'm sure
> that yaffs has better performance in some cases but what good is it if it's
> not reliable?  jffs2 it is for us for the foreseeable future.
> 
> Also, FWIW I have not tried the fix from technologic for the bad block
> issue, but we attempted the same thing here; we modified mtdutils
> flash_eraseall and the kernel to make them ignore bad blocks and we couldn't
> get them to clear.  Maybe our code was wrong.  I would like to recover our 3
> broken TS-7250s someday so hopefully the technologic code will fix it.
> 
> Best of luck.
> 
> Gary Wicker
> qhorus.com
> 

Thanks for you experiences. It's true in digging around for info on this yaffs 
problem what I found was not encouraging. I think I'll go down the jffs route 
as well if I can clear the flash.

However , I can not find out how to boot vmlinux.bin that is supplied with 
flash_eraseall_ignoreBB. It seems that I need both the tool and the kernel.

Can anyone enlighten me ?

TIA




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