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Originally Posted by hawhill
Nevertheless, it actually is /var/local, yes :-) I'm going to try wiping it, just for the fun of it (to explore the recovery path). Plus, I have a backup and now there is this quite reliable way of flashing that back. Also, I think I'm going to try yifanlus recovery kernel, I think it is easier to just flash that and use its MMC export mechanism to flash other things (should be a lot faster). However, ATK alone is a nice one-stop application for flashing whatever the user needs to be flashed (I did not try the user partition yet).
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Hmm...
User partition ~= 5x system partition == 2.5 hours ~== 12.5 hours.
Does the kindle remain powered (usb or charger) during that time?
That is a lot of erase, re-program cycles, the battery might need some help from an outside power source.
Is this utility (still) doing only 512 byte writes or did you get it to do 4096 byte writes?
Or is the special kernel at the Kindle-end consolidating writes into erase block chunks?
Doing 8x(erase, re-program) cycles per erase block chunk size will (perhaps is) a very slow, power hungry, process.
Just a few questions for thought before spending 12 hours watching a USB cable light blink.
