Restart problems after writing to mtdblock?

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Sat Nov 30 11:22:39 EST 2002


paulnash at wildseed.com said:
>  Power fail is not a concern -- this only occurs in the case of a
> software reboot of the chip without power loss.  An external reset is
> not an issue. Flash chips don't store state as to their last read mode
> across power failure anyway. 

I wouldn't swear to that. You could feasibly have a power outage long 
enough to reset most of the board, but the flash chips don't draw much 
power and could perhaps retain their state.

Unlikely perhaps, but I wouldn't declare it impossible.


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