JFFS/MTD and Raw access

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Friday 29 November 2002 12:28, simon at baydel.com wrote:
> I have hit exactly the same problem using JFFS2. I am no authority
> on this but, I thought the problem might be caused by the write
> generating different OOB data for input blocks, which are erased or
> only partially written. So I guess what needs to be done is to read
> and copy the DATA and OOB. I think you can do this with the
> nanddump and nandwrite utilities. I guess I will have to try it
> sometime.
On NOR-FLASH dd should work. 

For NAND see http://www.linux-mtd/tech/nand.html

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Thomas
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