Re: Binary Nandwrite/read to Flash

[Matthieu CASTET <matthieu.castet@parrot.com>]

Ricard Wanderlof wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Manuel Sahm wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> is it possible to write directly to nandflash, or to store a file in 
>> nand flash ?
> 
> Yes, use the mtdtools applications nandwrite and nanddump in order to skip 
> bad blocks during read and write. You'll need the pad option to nandwrite 
> in order to fill out to an even multiple of the page size.
> 
> If you're writing a file, it really is raw byte by byte, with no 
> indication of file size, access times etc, so to the extent you need that 
> info you'll have to store it explicitly.
> 
And if bits flip appear you've got a problem : you need to rewrite the file.


Matthieu