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From: "\"David Müller (ELSOFT AG)\"" <d.mueller@elsoft.ch>
To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: word line disturbance
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:20:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F8CF52E.1050502@elsoft.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C6BEE8B5E1BAC42905A93F13004E8AB03202232@mailse01.axis.se>

Hello

Magnus Mårtensson wrote:
> Hi.
> I had a discussion with flash manufacturer Atmel last week regarding a phenomenon that we had seen. 
> The phenomenon was called "word line disturbance" and it could occur if you tried to program only ones
> to a location that already contained ones. The result could be that some bit on another address got tainted. Ex
> writing 0xffff to address A could result in the content on address B changing from 0xffff to 0xfffe.
> 

Does anybody know more about the technical background of this "it's not
a bug, it's a feature" problem? Or is it just a manager driven decision
to save some money at the wrong place?


Dave

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-10-15  7:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-14 15:31 word line disturbance Magnus Mårtensson
2003-10-14 15:46 ` Steven Scholz
2003-10-14 17:31 ` Thayne Harbaugh
2003-10-14 21:39   ` Charles Manning
2003-10-15  7:20 ` "David Müller (ELSOFT AG)" [this message]
2003-10-16 19:34   ` Charles Manning

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