<div dir="ltr">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?<br><br>--<br>Ian<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Carlos Nazareno <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:object404@gmail.com">object404@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi all!<br>
<br>
What are the red dots on the NAND's disk cluster/block/sector<br>
visualization map when one does an update via USB stick and wipes the<br>
contents of the XO? Bad blocks?<br>
<br>
-Naz<br>
<br>
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Carlos Nazareno<br>
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