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2		The MTD project provides a couple of helpful tools to handle NAND Flash.
3		</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem"><p>flasherase, flasheraseall: Erase and format FLASH partitions</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>nandwrite: write filesystem images to NAND FLASH</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>nanddump: dump the contents of a NAND FLASH partitions</p></li></ul></div><p>
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5		These tools are aware of the NAND restrictions. Please use those tools
6		instead of complaining about errors which are caused by non NAND aware
7		access methods.
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