Charles Manning wrote:
> 
> It is safe to retry erases from a yaffs perspective, but if blocks are really 
> failing erases (ie. not just a driver issue)  I would be a bit concerned as 
> to their health and would not want to reuse those blocks.
> 

Right, that was my concern too.  I guess what I wasn't sure of is 
whether an erase failure is almost always (barring driver issues) an 
indication of a bad block, or whether, like writes, it can be a 
temporary glitch for which retries make sense.  Since in my case it 
turned out to be a driver issue, I still don't know the answer to this 
question, but it is now less pressing.

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