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* Writting to NAND flash
@ 2006-05-12  1:06 Husam
  2006-05-12  6:55 ` Artem B. Bityutskiy
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From: Husam @ 2006-05-12  1:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-mtd

Hi,

If I want to update data in page, do I have to erase the block first then 
write or can just write to the page.

Thanks

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* Re: Writting to NAND flash
  2006-05-12  1:06 Writting to NAND flash Husam
@ 2006-05-12  6:55 ` Artem B. Bityutskiy
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Artem B. Bityutskiy @ 2006-05-12  6:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Husam; +Cc: linux-mtd

Husam wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> If I want to update data in page, do I have to erase the block first then 
> write or can just write to the page.
Unfortunatelly, you have to erase the whole eraseblock first. Flashes 
are not block devices. If they were, we our life would be much easier.

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem B. Bityutskiy,
St.-Petersburg, Russia.

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