SPI flash read command appear to be crash

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Bus Pirate 5 resetting itself, causing storage corruption

I have an issue with my BP 5 REV10, as described in this thread Storage Not Detected on BP5 Because I’m new here, I reached my reply limit of 3. Yes, I know that’s there for a reason, but I wanted to share the further troubleshooting and what I’ve been seeing in the kernel log. It looks like the BP is resetting itself while connected to the serial console (for reference, I’m using minicom on Ubuntu 22.04). After it resets, the serial console reconnects, but it looks like the BP doesn’t alwa…

Storage architecture discussion

Continuing discussion from related thread Questions, corrections, clarifications, and discussion are welcome. This first post will contain background information on the technology in use. The second will describe the current design. The third post will explain some problems with the current design.

Summary of NAND stack

The BP5 Rev10 (and BP5XL, BP6) have a NAND chip soldered onto the board. This NAND chip does not have any wear-leveling algorithms, nor any remapping of pages that have err…