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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] NAND flash - bad blocks
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:33:20 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1358271200.7463.0@snotra> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <008001cdf310$c2002c70$2901a8c0@dpn> (from dpn@switchfin.org on Tue Jan 15 05:09:16 2013)

On 01/15/2013 05:09:16 AM, Dimitar Penev wrote:
> Hi Scott,
> 
> I have tried to do some more tests on the board with the NAND chip I  
> have scrub-ed
> 
> -I have done 'nand erase.chip clean'

Don't specify "clean".  That will cause jffs2 cleanmarkers to be  
written.  Not all NAND chips can handle partial programming, and in any  
case it's an unnecessary variable for figuring out the bad block  
situation.

> and tried to probe different nand regions
> (I have 128MB RAM and 1GB NAND and I am not sure how I could dump the  
> whole NAND at once)
> It seems the whole NAND is 0xFF

Including OOB?

> So I tend to think that nand scrub did a good think for me.

No, it didn't.  You are ignoring the problem.

-Scott

      reply	other threads:[~2013-01-15 17:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-10  7:56 [U-Boot] NAND flash - bad blocks Dimitar Penev
2013-01-10 19:19 ` Scott Wood
2013-01-11  8:46   ` Dimitar Penev
2013-01-11 20:21     ` Scott Wood
2013-01-15 11:09       ` Dimitar Penev
2013-01-15 17:33         ` Scott Wood [this message]

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