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Author: Nick Bane
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To: Martin Egholm Nielsen, yaffs
Subject: RE: [Yaffs] Re: Writing a single file marks entire device as bad
> Now, new strange things are happening!
> I enabled "CONFIG_MTD_NAND_VERIFY_WRITE=y" in the kernel, and suddenly
> it begun working!!

Odd but gratifying.

> However, I get these kernel messages (alot) whenever I try to read/write
> anything:
>
> === 8< 8< 8< ===
>     Writing data without ECC to NAND-FLASH is not recommended
>     Writing data without ECC to NAND-FLASH is not recommended
>     Writing data without ECC to NAND-FLASH is not recommended
>     Writing data without ECC to NAND-FLASH is not recommended
>     Reading data from NAND FLASH without ECC is not recommended

>
> I guess these must be from YAFFS...

No, that is normal. If MTD is asked not to do its own ECC it whinges like mad. Comment it out.
>
> Is there really no ECC running now? I thought that config-option for MTD
> did the job?

You should only do this if yaffs is doing the ECC instead.

>


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