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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Paul <paul@maypaul.com>, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Restore the bad block flag in OOB of  NAND flash
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 21:14:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200304172114.31896.tglx@linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <001201c30505$c4b83dd0$6c00a8c0@home>

On Thursday 17 April 2003 19:21, Paul wrote:
>  Dear All,
>
>     How can I restore the 0xFF in the OOB[5]?   i understood the oob[5] is
>  the bad block indicator. The YAFFS set accidentally the byte to 0x00 . I
>  want to use JFFS2 but the eraseall command said they are invalid block. I
> am
>  sure that the block is health . So, I want to force set the oob[5] to
> oxFF, pls. how can i do? Thank you.

There is no "legal" way to do so. The only way is to erase it. The sanity 
check is in erase function drivers/mtd/nand/nand.c. 

But think about, if it's worth do so for 16KiB flash memory :)

-- 
Thomas
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  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-17 18:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-17 17:21 Restore the bad block flag in OOB of NAND flash Paul
2003-04-17 19:14 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2003-04-17 20:49 ` Charles Manning
2003-04-17 22:20   ` Thomas Gleixner
2003-04-18  3:44   ` Paul Wong

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