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From: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 09:14:07 +0200
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] skipping bad blocks when erasing nand
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On Friday 14 July 2006 00:45, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> In message <000001c6a6ca$bd0b3230$a134800a@RudiDell> you wrote:
> > I guess I don't understand what's going on enough then.  Is it really an
> > error to come across a bad block?  I thought that was part of the deal
> > when
>
> It should at least be reported to the user - otherwise he assumes  to
> have an error-free medium.

I am "voting" for David's implementation, since bad blocks are "normal" on 
NAND chips. And if I remember correctly, the "old" U-Boot NAND driver also 
just skipped the bad block upon erasing without reproting them.

Best regards,
Stefan