[U-Boot] 4k page ONFI NAND

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Tue Jan 3 12:25:29 EST 2012


On 01/03/2012 03:36 AM, Vipin Kumar wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> We have a Micron 4K page sized ONFI NAND MT29F16G08
> I am encountering frequent errors while reading the device. Although the
> data area is protected for 8bit correction with BCH8 algorithm, the oob
> area is unprotected and is susceptible to bit flips
> 
> These errors are very frequent and it results in jffs2 file system
> mounting problems and other related issues
> 
> I also confirmed the problem through oobtest module.
> 
> Can you please suggest any solutions/workaround

Use ubi -- the OOB will then only be used for ECC.

-Scott




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