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From: "Raghav K" <raghavk@myw.ltindia.com>
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Subject: Raw Flash Writes
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Greetings all,

My system has the flash interleaved to give me an  effective sector=20
size of 256kB;

A write to an entire erased sector of flash causes  my  kernel to =
crash,=20
however the writes to the same in smaller chunks with a small delay=20
seems to work fine.

Is there some sort of limit in "write-chuck" size or any timeout placed=20
on a write operation considering that it is  "synced". If so how can =20
this be modified ?

I've also tried to  "cat 256k_file > /dev/mtd4", this too drives my=20
kernel crazy.

Any and all help appreciated.

Thanks and Regards,
-raghav-
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