This object will provide a cumulative count (since last system boot up or initialization) of the number of erase retries that were done in the chip. Typically, a maximum of 2000 retries are done in a single erase zone (which may be a full chip or a portion, depending on the chip technology) before flagging an erase error. A management station is expected to get this object for each chip in a partition after an erase failure in that partition. To keep a track of retries for a given erase operation, the management station would have to retrieve the values for the concerned chips before and after any erase operation. Note that erase may be done through an independent command, or through a copy-to-flash command.