diff --git a/mtdutils/dump_image.c b/mtdutils/dump_image.c
index 8c3a052..ddaf6f6 100644
--- a/mtdutils/dump_image.c
+++ b/mtdutils/dump_image.c
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 	unlink(argv[2]);
         die("error opening %s: %s\n", argv[1], strerror(errno));
     }
-
+/* - comment out this outdated shit
     if (!strcmp(argv[1], "system") ||
         !strcmp(argv[1], "cache") ||
 	!strcmp(argv[1], "userdata")) {
@@ -107,6 +107,13 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 	read_size = BLOCK_SIZE;
 	read_func = mtd_read_data;
     }
+*/
+
+// - use mtd_read_data only, clean this up later
+        read_size = BLOCK_SIZE;
+        read_func = mtd_read_data;
+
+//	printf("debug: partition size: %d\n", partition_size);
 
     total = 0;
     while ((len = read_func(in, buf, read_size)) > 0) {
@@ -119,12 +126,15 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 	total += BLOCK_SIZE;
     }
 
+//	printf("debug: bytes read: %d\n", total);
+
+/* packetlss - don't assume every eraseblock is ok
     if (total != partition_size) {
     	close(fd);
 	unlink(argv[2]);
     	die("error reading %s", argv[1]);
     }
-
+*/
     mtd_read_close(in);
 
     if (close(fd)) {
diff --git a/mtdutils/mtdutils.c b/mtdutils/mtdutils.c
index 25feabd..18e6a5d 100644
--- a/mtdutils/mtdutils.c
+++ b/mtdutils/mtdutils.c
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ struct MtdPartition {
 struct MtdReadContext {
     const MtdPartition *partition;
     char *buffer;
-    size_t read_size;
     size_t consumed;
     int fd;
 };
@@ -565,84 +564,3 @@ off_t mtd_find_write_start(MtdWriteContext *ctx, off_t pos) {
     }
     return pos;
 }
-
-
-ssize_t mtd_read_raw(MtdReadContext *ctx, char *data, size_t len)
-{
-    static const int SPARE_SIZE = (2048 >> 5);
-    struct mtd_info_user mtd_info;
-    struct mtd_oob_buf oob_buf;
-    struct nand_ecclayout ecc_layout;
-    struct nand_oobfree *fp;
-    unsigned char ecc[SPARE_SIZE];
-    char *src, *dst;
-    int i, n, ret;
-
-/*
- * FIXME: These two ioctls should be cached in MtdReadContext.
- */
-    ret = ioctl(ctx->fd, MEMGETINFO, &mtd_info);
-    if (ret < 0)
-        return -1;
-
-    ret = ioctl(ctx->fd, ECCGETLAYOUT, &ecc_layout);
-    if (ret < 0)
-        return -1;
-
-    ctx->read_size = mtd_info.writesize;
-    ctx->consumed = ctx->read_size;
-
-/*
- * Read next good data block.
- */
-    ret = read_block(ctx->partition, ctx->fd, data);
-    if (ret < 0)
-    	return -1;
-
-    dst = src = data + ctx->read_size;
-
-/*
- * Read OOB data for last block read in read_block().
- */
-    oob_buf.start = lseek(ctx->fd, 0, SEEK_CUR) - ctx->read_size;
-    oob_buf.length = mtd_info.oobsize;
-    oob_buf.ptr = (unsigned char *) src;
-
-    ret = ioctl(ctx->fd, MEMREADOOB, &oob_buf);
-    if (ret < 0)
-    	return -1;
-
-/*
- * As yaffs and yaffs2 use mode MEM_OOB_AUTO, but mtdchar uses
- * MEM_OOB_PLACE, copy the spare data down the hard way.
- *
- * Safe away ECC data:
- */
-    for (i = 0; i < ecc_layout.eccbytes; i++) {
-    	ecc[i] = src[ecc_layout.eccpos[i]];
-    }
-    for ( ; i < SPARE_SIZE; i++) {
-    	ecc[i] = 0;
-    }
-
-/*
- * Copy yaffs2 spare data down.
- */
-    n = ecc_layout.oobavail;
-    fp = &ecc_layout.oobfree[0];
-    while (n) {
-    	if (fp->offset) {
-		memmove(dst, src + fp->offset, fp->length); 
-	}
-	dst += fp->length;
-	n -= fp->length;
-	++fp;
-    }
-
-/*
- * Restore ECC data behind spare data.
- */
-    memcpy(dst, ecc, (ctx->read_size >> 5) - ecc_layout.oobavail);
-
-    return ctx->read_size + (ctx->read_size >> 5);
-}