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From: "Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: nand oob corruption recovery
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 21:00:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200407012100.28033.tglx@linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40E448BD.8030909@cray.com>

On Thursday 01 July 2004 19:24, David Updegraff wrote:
> I realize that specs say that if you wipe out mfg. bad block markers
> that there is "no way to recover them".. but...
> Are there suggestions for plausibly reliable test sequences that one
> could run a nand chip thru to regenerate valid bad block markers?
>
> Presumeably, it is insufficient to simply try to erase all blocks,
> marking failures as bad...  perhaps verified full page writes ?

Erasing may be not sufficient, as the block could be al ff. Writing all blocks 
to all zeros and verify that it works. Maybe try a 0x55 and 0xAA pattern too.

-- 
Thomas
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-01 19:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-01 17:24 nand oob corruption recovery David Updegraff
2004-07-01 19:00 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2004-07-01 22:45   ` David Updegraff

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