Hi all I have added Sergey's patch to CVS because it is a valuable thing to have and I think it is better in CVS than floating around the list. It is not the original patch, but is slightly modified. I have used this on a couple of boards now, and a few others have also reported that this fixes their problems. I found that due to some issues in mtd, Sergey's patch would not work straight up on the boards I tested, but needed a tweak to disable one of the mtd access modes (the "if ( 0 &&") in approx line 170. The patched yaffs_mtdif2.c is not in the main code, but is in the patches subdirectory. Despite our differences of opinion on various issues, I would like to thank Sergey for providing the patch. Charles