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Subject: Re: Serious flash problems - bad inodes? 
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luke_epsilon@yahoo.com said:
> # ls
> Unknown INCOMPAT nodetype FFFF at 0076CC3C 
> Unknown INCOMPAT nodetype FFFF at 0076CAC0

Odd. Looks like something may have erased that flash block while it was 
mounted. Can you reproduce it?


> Last[2] is ff, datum is 85
> Write of 68 bytes at 0x0076ecec failed. returned 0, retlen 0

That's a flash driver playing silly buggers. Check you can write to the 
whole device.



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