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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: Gil Weber <gilw@cse-semaphore.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Flash corruption
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 20:13:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111005181335.340A218E5B38@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E8C26DB.8040105@cse-semaphore.com>

Dear Gil Weber,

In message <4E8C26DB.8040105@cse-semaphore.com> you wrote:
>
> We are using jffs2 in an embedded system with a kernel 2.6.27 and 
> sometimes,
> we see a file system corruption that we can't explain (no power fail, ...).
> This corruption follows some basic write operations to update our software.
...
> Our flash is a Spansion GL128N90 16Mb and we are using CFI command set 

That's a MirrorBit device. MirrorBit is known to have pretty obscure
error modes. 

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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      reply	other threads:[~2011-10-05 18:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-05  9:43 Flash corruption Gil Weber
2011-10-05 18:13 ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]

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