bad blocks

[nevster]

hiya,

i backed up the nand on a couple of psp's and it showed that they had a bad block half way through... what does this mean? and is there anyway of sorting it out?

thanks

 

[x3sphere]

hiya,

i backed up the nand on a couple of psp's and it showed that they had a bad block half way through... what does this mean? and is there anyway of sorting it out?

thanks

It's nothing to be worried about. As with hard drives, writes to the flash can develop bad blocks over time. The NAND has error correction so it will skip over bad blocks and use a good block instead.

In fact most PSPs ship with a couple bad blocks on the NAND.