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fgiasson@mediatrix.com said:
> That's right, but a read back validation has to show the error.

There is no such read back validation in any of the MTD code, is there?
If you write to a region which already contains data, then read back and 
compare with the data you wrote, you're likely to see differences.

Film at 11. :)

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dwmw2