red dots on NAND map when usb updating

[Ian Daniher]

They are indeed bad blocks. I believe a block is a single cluster of eight
kilobytes, the smallest unit of NAND flash - can anyone confirm this?

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On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Carlos Nazareno <object404 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> What are the red dots on the NAND's disk cluster/block/sector
> visualization map when one does an update via USB stick and wipes the
> contents of the XO? Bad blocks?
>
> -Naz
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