i.MX21 ADS NAND flash bad blocks scan. Barebox vs Linux

Cristiano De Alti cristiano_dealti at hotmail.com
Sat Mar 22 12:08:02 EDT 2014


Cristiano De Alti <cristiano_dealti at ...> writes:

> This board has a 64MBi Samsung NAND flash that is detected both by Barebox
> (recent snapshot) and Linux 3.4.77.
> 
> The issue is that, while the bad blocks scan takes a negligible time on
> Barebox, it takes 10 minutes to complete on Linux.

I believe the NAND flash is faulty. Mechanically stressing the NAND flash
card seems to speed up BB scan on Linux or detect more bad blocks. I wont's
spend more time on this issue





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