Re: [Yaffs] Re: bit error rates

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Author: Jon Masters
Date:  
To: Peter Barada
CC: Sergei Sharonov, yaffs
Subject: Re: [Yaffs] Re: bit error rates
On 2/9/06, Peter Barada <> wrote:

> I use a YAFFS1 NOR-based system, and in the writes, we lay
> down the data chunk, and then the tag. In the unlikely event that a
> power-cycle occurs while writing the data, the tag is still empty, but
> some of the data chunk is not erased, and then next time a write occurs
> into that chunk, YAFFS sees that the write fails since the previous data
> was written(and retires the whole block), even though the tag indicated
> the chunk is empty.


That does seem to be preferable over writing the tag twice.

Jon.