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From: Charles Manning <manningc2@actrix.gen.nz>
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Subject: Re: NAND device ID 0xd5 appears twice in nand_ids.c table
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On Monday 16 April 2007 21:41, sasin@solomon-systech.com wrote:
> NAND device ID 0xd5 appears for a 4MiB device as well as for a 2GiB
> device.  So when the new 2GiB device is used, it is detected as the
> older 4MiB device.  Should other ID bytes perhaps be used to
> differentiate between the two?  This problem will continue as older
> device IDs are reused in newer devices.

Can't the devices be differentiated by reading the part's geometry info?