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From: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: supporting stupid chips part IV
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 00:43:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040823004304.0befb1b3.spyro@f2s.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040823003835.712122c3.spyro@f2s.com>

On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 00:38:35 +0100
Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com> wrote:

Hit ctrl-enter, oops... try again...

> This gets worse...
> 
> So, now we have the chip reading OK with soft ECC, albeit using a
> *bizarre* layout for the ECC data.
> 
> but it appears the hardware ECC doesnt work! the little bugger.

looking at winCE code more closely, I now see that winCE only uses hw
ECC when *writing*, although it actually seems to reset and enable hw
ECC when reading - just discards the results, bah!

oh well. I guess its back ot soft ECC for now... I'll send an email to
toshiba and see if they have anything to say...

      reply	other threads:[~2004-08-22 23:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-20 12:23 supporting stupid chips Ian Molton
2004-08-20 23:26 ` supporting stupid chips part II Ian Molton
2004-08-22 13:10   ` supporting stupid chips part III Ian Molton
2004-08-22 23:38     ` supporting stupid chips part IV Ian Molton
2004-08-22 23:43       ` Ian Molton [this message]

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