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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...