hi. This also was discussed in old forum here: http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1258047495
You should really change the EEPROM.write example as it is wrong and are somehow confusing.
In the beginning you say that epprom value can be 0 - 255, then in the example when i reaches 256 you write that value into eeprom.
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for (int i = 0; i < 512; i++)
EEPROM.write(i, i);
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