> If you tell us the addresses of the first 10-or-so bad blocks, we > could set up a laptop in the same way and try to reproduce. You can do > this by booting with the game-key-up cheat code > (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Cheat_codes) and then using the arrow keys > to move to the first red block. When you get there it will say > something like "28f Marked bad in Bad Block Table". 28f is the > address. Then collect addresses of the next 9. rocker up gave me pong but scan-nand works bad blocks: a 1a 2a 3a 4a ... the a's through to fa then ok for a while the a's 30a thru to 3ba the a's 50a thru to 5ca first bad block thats not 'a' is at 6b1