Hi: On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 19:00:18 +0800, wrote: >> Yea, I was surprised with that as well, However, after some >> considerations, I'm close to the conclusion that it's >> controller-specific. The thing is that the OOB is spread across the >> page IOT facilitate HW ECC, so it's (512b data, 16b OOB) x 4 actually >> for each page, so each OOB write is costly. However, such things >> appear more and more as manufacturers go producing cheaper chips that >> need stronger ECC. Can you explain OOB write costly , and give me some driver example? Is it only happen in some chip with nand controller and 2k page NAND ? Best Regards pengfushi -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/