Mitch, One of the LBA NAND test machines killed it's MBR. It started with a failed comparison of the commonly written blocks, then stopped talking to the device at all. On reboot, fdisk showed no partition table. dd of /dev/lba showed all FFs for the first 16K, then 00 for the next 2K, then data. Suggestions on how to proceed w. debugging are welcome. wad