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Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 12:10:03 -0500
From: "Kevin Zhang" <kzhang01mail@gmail.com>
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Subject: Is there a minimal size requirement for oobfree area?
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Hi,

I am trying to understand if there is a size requirement for the
oobfree area. For the 512-byte nand flash, does the oobfree area have
to be at least 8 bytes?

Thanks a lot,
Kevin