Fw: corrupt my NAND flash device

[David Woodhouse]

On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 14:48, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> I see, I meant the data area. There we don't use partial programming. For the 
> oob area it works with JFFS2. 

Not always. I've encountered some Toshiba NAND chips which zero the
entire data page and the unwritten part of the OOB area if you try a
partial OOB write. In fact, even if you try a complete OOB write they
zero the data page.

Issuing a RESET before the write command fixes this.

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