Re: Goflex net too many bad eraseblocks

Alin — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:40:22 -0500

Hi, I have the same problem, as far as I read about it for a week or so , it may be that the NAND used is bad quality and is like this from the factory. Basically, if a NAND have bad blocks and still works, it will be shipped and sell.
I managed to boot from the USB and load the / from sata hdd.
I tried to erase/rewrite the nand but to no avail.
Eventually I leave it like this; read to many stories about bricked devices and happy that at least is booting.

You can use the sata hdd ?
I can send you my config. I'm using 2.6.38-ubit kernel

Goflex net too many bad eraseblocks

Bo — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:24:17 -0500

Dear All

I recently got a goflex net and ran Shyd's script to install debian onto a USB harddrive. I then planned on moving the boot drive to SATA. Here is where I discovered a problem.

Initially, I ran fw_printenv to see uboot and set SATA stuff, but fw_printenv tells me "Too few good blocks in range."

I go to dmesg and find

[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
[ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.32-5-kirkwood (Debian 2.6.32-38) (ben@decadent.org.uk) (gcc version 4.3.5 (Debian 4.3.5-4) ) #1 Mon Oct 3 16:55:04 UTC 2011
[ 0.000000] CPU: Feroceon 88FR131 [56251311] revision 1 (ARMv5TE), cr=00053977
[ 0.000000] CPU: VIVT data cache, VIVT instruction cache
[ 0.000000] Machine: Marvell SheevaPlug Reference Board
[ 0.000000] Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache writeback
[ 0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 32768
[ 0.000000] free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat c03d50b4, node_mem_map c043f000
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 256 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 0 pages reserved
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 32512 pages, LIFO batch:7
[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 32512
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/sda1 rootdelay=10 rootfstype=ext2 mtdparts=orion_nand:1M(u-boot),4M(uImage),32M(rootfs),-(data)
[ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 512 (order: -1, 2048 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Memory: 128MB = 128MB total
[ 0.000000] Memory: 121016KB available (3516K code, 583K data, 124K init, 0K highmem)
[ 0.000000] SLUB: Genslabs=11, HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
[ 0.000000] Hierarchical RCU implementation.
[ 0.000000] NR_IRQS:114
[ 0.000000] Console: colour dummy device 80x30
[ 0.000124] Calibrating delay loop... 1192.75 BogoMIPS (lpj=5963776)
[ 0.240079] Security Framework initialized
[ 0.240099] SELinux: Disabled at boot.
[ 0.240119] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[ 0.240375] Initializing cgroup subsys ns
[ 0.240388] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct
[ 0.240397] Initializing cgroup subsys devices
[ 0.240405] Initializing cgroup subsys freezer
[ 0.240413] Initializing cgroup subsys net_cls
[ 0.240454] CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
[ 0.241025] devtmpfs: initialized
[ 0.242435] regulator: core version 0.5
[ 0.242612] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[ 0.242997] Kirkwood: MV88F6281-A1, TCLK=200000000.
[ 0.243009] Feroceon L2: Cache support initialised.
[ 0.243409] initial MPP regs: 01111111 11113322 00001111 00100000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[ 0.243430] final MPP regs: 01111111 11113322 00001111 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[ 0.244841] bio: create slab at 0
[ 0.245124] vgaarb: loaded
[ 0.245604] Switching to clocksource orion_clocksource
[ 0.249640] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[ 0.249884] IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.250715] TCP established hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[ 0.250815] TCP bind hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[ 0.250868] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096)
[ 0.250877] TCP reno registered
[ 0.251028] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[ 0.251207] Unpacking initramfs...
[ 0.561693] Freeing initrd memory: 4420K
[ 0.561802] NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.97 (double precision)
[ 0.562051] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
[ 0.562087] type=2000 audit(0.550:1): initialized
[ 0.568546] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.2
[ 0.568815] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.568926] JFFS2 version 2.2. (NAND) (SUMMARY) © 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
[ 0.569575] msgmni has been set to 245
[ 0.571320] alg: No test for stdrng (krng)
[ 0.571444] Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 253)
[ 0.571457] io scheduler noop registered
[ 0.571464] io scheduler anticipatory registered
[ 0.571471] io scheduler deadline registered
[ 0.571651] io scheduler cfq registered (default)
[ 0.577747] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 2 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
[ 0.578222] serial8250.0: ttyS0 at MMIO 0xf1012000 (irq = 33) is a 16550A
[ 0.901630] console [ttyS0] enabled
[ 0.905735] NAND device: Manufacturer ID: 0x98, Chip ID: 0xda (Toshiba NAND 256MiB 3,3V 8-bit)
[ 0.914398] Scanning device for bad blocks
[ 0.918602] Bad eraseblock 1 at 0x000000020000

The bad eraseblock stuff goes onto Bad eraseblock 2047, like below

[ 10.529400] Bad eraseblock 2047 at 0x00000ffe0000
[ 10.534169] 4 cmdlinepart partitions found on MTD device orion_nand
[ 10.540483] Creating 4 MTD partitions on "orion_nand":
[ 10.545659] 0x000000000000-0x000000100000 : "u-boot"
[ 10.551249] 0x000000100000-0x000000500000 : "uImage"
[ 10.556728] 0x000000500000-0x000002500000 : "rootfs"
[ 10.562206] 0x000002500000-0x000010000000 : "data"
[ 10.568267] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[ 11.575646] rtc-mv rtc-mv: internal RTC not ticking
[ 11.580639] i2c /dev entries driver
[ 11.584314] cpuidle: using governor ladder
[ 11.588567] cpuidle: using governor menu
[ 11.592600] Registered led device: plug:green:health
[ 11.597667] mv_xor_shared mv_xor_shared.0: Marvell shared XOR driver
[ 11.604065] mv_xor_shared mv_xor_shared.1: Marvell shared XOR driver
[ 11.645673] mv_xor mv_xor.0: Marvell XOR: ( xor cpy )
[ 11.685671] mv_xor mv_xor.1: Marvell XOR: ( xor fill cpy )
[ 11.725670] mv_xor mv_xor.2: Marvell XOR: ( xor cpy )
[ 11.765671] mv_xor mv_xor.3: Marvell XOR: ( xor fill cpy )
[ 11.772353] TCP cubic registered
[ 11.775599] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 11.780095] Gating clock of unused units
[ 11.780103] before: 0x00dfc3fd
[ 11.780111] after: 0x00c701d9
[ 11.780428] registered taskstats version 1
[ 11.785213] /build/buildd-linux-2.6_2.6.32-38-armel-4UQXU_/linux-2.6-2.6.32/debian/build/source_armel_none/drivers/rtc/hctosys.c: unable to open rtc device (rtc0)
[ 11.799878] Initalizing network drop monitor service
[ 11.804924] Freeing init memory: 124K
[ 11.856108] udev[44]: starting version 164
[ 12.177279] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 12.192665] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 12.205656] MV-643xx 10/100/1000 ethernet driver version 1.4
[ 12.211710] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 12.230862] mv643xx_eth smi: probed
[ 12.234594] mmc0: mvsdio driver initialized, lacking card detect (fall back to polling)
[ 12.252300] net eth0: port 0 with MAC address 00:10:75:26:90:2e
[ 12.258534] ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
[ 12.265144] orion-ehci orion-ehci.0: Marvell Orion EHCI
[ 12.273359] orion-ehci orion-ehci.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[ 12.305657] orion-ehci orion-ehci.0: irq 19, io mem 0xf1050000
[ 12.325671] orion-ehci orion-ehci.0: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00
[ 12.332076] usb usb1: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0002
[ 12.338937] usb usb1: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
[ 12.346203] usb usb1: Product: Marvell Orion EHCI
[ 12.350926] usb usb1: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.32-5-kirkwood ehci_hcd
[ 12.357319] usb usb1: SerialNumber: orion-ehci.0
[ 12.362494] usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 12.368443] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 12.372242] hub 1-0:1.0: 1 port detected
[ 12.695651] usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using orion-ehci and address 2
[ 12.846551] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=4971, idProduct=ce21
[ 12.853293] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=10, Product=11, SerialNumber=3
[ 12.860650] usb 1-1: Product: SimpleDrive mini
[ 12.865110] usb 1-1: Manufacturer: Hitachi GST
[ 12.869584] usb 1-1: SerialNumber: 2512010111110173
[ 12.875885] usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 12.965836] SCSI subsystem initialized
[ 12.992996] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
[ 12.998210] scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[ 13.004904] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[ 13.011566] usb-storage: device found at 2
[ 13.011575] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[ 13.011611] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[ 18.006012] usb-storage: device scan complete
[ 18.048267] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access Hitachi HTS545050B9A300 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 CCS
[ 18.085959] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 976773168 512-byte logical blocks: (500 GB/465 GiB)
[ 18.094192] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 18.099026] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 28 00 00 00
[ 18.099036] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 18.106690] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 18.112817] sda: sda1 sda2
[ 18.140192] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 18.146345] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
[ 23.769692] udev[161]: starting version 164
[ 24.793966] Adding 976552k swap on /dev/sda2. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:976552k
[ 27.962060] eth0: link up, 100 Mb/s, full duplex, flow control disabled
[ 30.496982] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 41.035636] eth0: no IPv6 routers present

I followed http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?3,5728,5770, to try to nandwrite Jeff's uboot onto the first 8 blocks. Of course I followed Bohdi's September 04, 2011 05:28PM thread and had the same results. Specifically, I ran Jeff's uboot script without uboot check, and the script reported the same result as the above post. I then ran flash_erase and nandwrite like Bohdi. Nandwrite reported writing block 1 and 7 and was only able to partially write jeff's uboot. I thought all these bad blocks are BS, and rebooted. Yet, the goflex still boots to USB.

Any clue on what's causing the bad blocks?