On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 17:21 +0000, Jon Masters wrote: > On 2/10/06, Peter Barada wrote: > > > Any suggestions for a general solution that can be proven to properly > > recover for a power failure at *any* point in the process? > > Nope :-( > > I don't think your solution is a general solution, but I didn't say it > didn't work. I think the best solution is having an NMI power fail > interrupt and using that (small) amount of time to shutdown cleanly. That works only for designs that have an NMI power fail interrupt, and enough power/time to drive the flash to mark it as bogus. Also its much more complex than preventing the problem in the first place. :) > Jon.