Re: NAND flash write goes wrong

[borasah@gmail.com]

Hi,

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Thanks for the infos...

> >> Blocks (nand flash terminology rejects the name 'sectors' in favor of
> >> 'blocks' and 'pages') can go bad with time, but we're talking about
> >> thousands if not tens of thousands of erase/write cycles here. So it
> >> seems there's something wrong here.
> >
> > Yes, I think too. Now ~140 bad sector is reported during the boot. I just
> > did at most 50 read/write...
>
> You sound far from wearing the chip out. There must be another problem
> there somewhere.

Hmm...

> >> There was a patch posted just a week or so ago here which fixed a
> >> problem with bad block marking and recognition when not using a
> >> flash-based bad block table.
> >
> > I'm new to the list. Is this Artem's patch? I applied it, but no
> > success... Maybe
> > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2007-May/018087.html?
>
> By Thomas Knobloch I believe, but yes, that's the patch I was thinking of.

I applied it but no success...

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I tried K9F1208U0A with linux-2.6.20 -> JFFS2 file system. I successfully used 
the part. 

Secondly, I tried yaffs with that part in the linux-2.6.11. It was successful 
too.

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