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From: "Richard A. Smith" <richard@laptop.org>
To: mikus@bga.com
Cc: devel@lists.laptop.org, linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Memory replacement
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 10:17:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D7E237E.1040409@laptop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D7D4670.1050009@bga.com>

On 03/13/2011 06:34 PM, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
>> The tests have also helped expose other issues with things like sudden
>> power off.  In one case a SPO during a write would corrupt the card so
>> badly it became useless.  You could only recover them via a super secret
>> tool from the manufacturer.
>
> Is there any "sledgehammer" process available to users without a super
> secret tool ?

Wasn't just secret to users.  They would not give us the info on how to 
do it either.  It was vendor specific so not really worth the effort of 
trying to reverse engineer.

-- 
Richard A. Smith  <richard@laptop.org>
One Laptop per Child

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-03-14 14:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <AANLkTikQOVa8qfU-R6uqQXKhAVxqeAmxKONjPmmqLCr8@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found] ` <201103111135.01394.arnd@arndb.de>
     [not found]   ` <320717C0-7117-462E-9227-7966EE6941D7@laptop.org>
2011-03-12 22:51     ` Memory replacement Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-13  1:01       ` C. Scott Ananian
2011-03-13 12:57         ` Andrei Warkentin
2011-03-13 17:00           ` C. Scott Ananian
2011-03-13 17:06             ` C. Scott Ananian
2011-03-13 17:21         ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-13 21:31           ` Richard A. Smith
2011-03-13 22:34             ` Mikus Grinbergs
2011-03-14 14:01               ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-14 14:17               ` Richard A. Smith [this message]
2011-03-14 18:50               ` John Watlington
2011-03-14 19:18                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-15  0:29                   ` John Watlington
2011-03-15  8:42                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-14 17:32             ` Arnd Bergmann

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