RE: Fw: corrupt my NAND flash device

["Stephan Linke" <Stephan.Linke@epygi.de>]

Hi Thomas,

>From my experience partial page write is still used by YAFFS in OOB area. And I don't know how you are doing a journaling FS  on a
NAND without partial writes.

Stephan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Gleixner [mailto:tglx@linutronix.de]
> Sent: Samstag, 5. Juli 2003 17:15
> To: Stephan Linke; Alex Samoutin
> Cc: Linux-Mtd
> Subject: Re: Fw: corrupt my NAND flash device
>
>
> On Thursday 03 July 2003 07:44, Stephan Linke wrote:
> > Hi Alex,
> >
> > I just had a look at this mail and one of the problems you mention just
> > reminds me of me experiences a few month ago. You say that write verify on
> > you NAND flash sometimes failes. I had the same on my board using YAFFS on
> > a NAND. I figured out that verify failes during partial writes. The reason
> > the compair routine doesn'T deal with that special situation where there is
> > already some data in the page and someone writes only a few 0's leaving the
> > rest at 0xFF since the manual says to do so in partial writes.
>
> We have canceled partial page writes some time ago.
>
> --
> Thomas
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