On 04/01/2011 05:20 PM, Gennady Kupava wrote: > В Птн, 01/04/2011 в 17:00 +0200, Ed Kapitein пишет: >> On Friday 01 April 2011 14:52:02 David Matthews wrote: >>>> I had a few problems with several uSD cards lately and i am trying to >>>> figure out what is going wrong. >>>> It used to be much more stable than it is now, i have massive file system >>>> corruption on a weekly basis. >>>> So i decided to downgrade to u-boot (was using qi) and back to an old >>>> andy- tracking kernel. Also i reverted back to xorg-server using the >>>> fbdev driver instead of the glamo driver. >>> Ed - do you have a nand install and are the problems occurring after a >>> reboot? If so it's probably the same issue I posted about several weeks >>> back - I did post a work around as well, which for me at least, works >>> fine. >> Hi David, >> >> Thanks for the reply, but my situation is different. >> I have qtmoko on nand and gentoo on uSD, and qi as a bootloader to choose >> between the two, >> Even without rebooting the FR it start to mess up my uSD card filesystem. >> sometimes files that are unreadable are just fine after a reboot, sometimes >> the >> files are really messed up and need to be restored. >> It might well be that the glamo is getting bad or that there is another kind >> of hardware failure going on. >> >> I tried using ext2fs and ext3fs but hat does not change anything. >> >> ATM i am booting the SD card form nor boot and qtmoko from qi. >> But i would like to be able to use nand u-boot to boot from the SD card and >> from nand. > Hi, Ed, > > I am using mine u-boot with few fixes, it's not without bugs, but it > probably has less bugs than openmoko's u-boot: > > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/U-boot-gena2x > > Also i'd suggest to try reducing sd card clock in kernel params (in > u-boot env, glamo_mci.sd_max_clk=15000000). > > And do backups. I am just removing sd card and do full dd dump of > contents to hdd, this takes 10 mins, but 100% error-proof, easy, fast > and painless recover. without any problems with partitions or anything > else. > > Gennady. > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community Hi Gennady
Thanks i see that it uses the 2-4-2 timings, so i will try it after running with the current setup for a while. I do make backups, with rdiff-backup, so i have almost 2 years of backups without wasting to much diskspace. Kind regards, Ed _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community