From: Pantelis Antoniou <panto@intracom.gr>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] [RFC] NAND Flash
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 15:44:55 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <408E55C7.4000800@intracom.gr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <71555548814716479478431542AA5F8A5AA132@dlee2k04.ent.ti.com>
Woodruff, Richard wrote:
>>I hope you don't solder your chips on the board, cause bad blocks can
>>
>be
>
>>present in pristine chips fresh from the factory.
>>This will NOT work, since a bad block anywhere in the range that you
>>
>use
>
>>means that you must replace the chip.
>>
>>
>
>Bad blocks can in practice be a bit harder to get then one might think.
>In say ... 500 different samples which passed my desk in the last three
>years none of them actually had bad blocks. They could have of coarse.
>We simulated bad blocks. It is a real problem.
>
I thought it was rare too until I got one chip with a bad block just the
other
day.
It seems to vary with the lot.
>
>Regards,
>
>Richard W.
>
>
>
>
Regards
Pantelis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-27 12:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-27 12:46 [U-Boot-Users] [RFC] NAND Flash Woodruff, Richard
2004-04-27 12:44 ` Pantelis Antoniou [this message]
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2004-04-27 13:52 Dave Ellis
2004-04-27 12:39 Woodruff, Richard
2004-04-27 12:42 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2004-04-27 14:13 ` Wolfgang Denk
2004-04-27 11:46 VanBaren, Gerald
2004-04-27 7:42 Peter Billek
2004-04-27 7:45 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2004-04-27 7:08 Pantelis Antoniou
2004-06-06 21:55 ` Wolfgang Denk
2004-06-07 5:54 ` Pantelis Antoniou
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