cannot access NAND STL partition

Ricard Wanderlof ricard.wanderlof at axis.com
Fri Feb 6 04:58:15 EST 2009


On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, Iram Shahzad wrote:

> But the flash has to be programmed using a special flash
> writer. While doing this the flash is divided into several
> partitions, some partitions are STL and the others are BML.
> Now I find that u-boot/Linux can read BML partitions correctly
> but cannot read STL partitions. Reading STL partition gives
> unexpected data.

I assume BML = Block Management Layer and STL = Sector Transition Layer?
From an MTD and JFFS2 point of view the terminology sounds slightly odd, 
exactly what type of file system are you using and exactly what type of 
BML and STL are you referring to?

/Ricard
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