From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lazybastard.de ([212.112.238.170] helo=longford.logfs.org) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.68 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1K5bpu-0004LE-7k for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 07:30:38 +0000 Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 09:30:27 +0200 From: =?utf-8?B?SsO2cm4=?= Engel To: Markus Schiltknecht Subject: Re: Intel Turbo Memory Message-ID: <20080609073026.GG13200@logfs.org> References: <261293.50747.qm@web31815.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20080605064814.GB17037@logfs.org> <484CD9C0.8060105@bluegap.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <484CD9C0.8060105@bluegap.ch> Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, Russell Fleitman List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Mon, 9 June 2008 09:20:32 +0200, Markus Schiltknecht wrote: > Jörn Engel wrote: > >It appears as if those devices are raw flash and could be accessed > >through mtd - provided someone either has documentation or creates some > >by reverse engineering. > > Isn't that the first - and so far only - device which adheres to their > NVMHCI specification [1]? Interesting. If that is the case then we're dealing with a weird device indeed. "Erases ... are abstracted", OOB is 12 bytes per 512. So they do some sort of FTL stuff, but still leave 12 out of 16 bytes of OOB available for the user. Quite odd. Anyway, thanks for the spec! Jörn -- You can take my soul, but not my lack of enthusiasm. -- Wally