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On Sun, 28 October 2007 22:59:07 -0400, David Woodhouse wrote:
> 
> Yes, it does. In fact, on NOR flash you get entirely synchronous
> behaviour even _without_ explicit syncs -- effectively the same as
> MS_SYNC.

On older ones.  There appears to be a tendency for newer flashes to
require wbuf and hence sync.

Jörn

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