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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.

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