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studying_mtd@yahoo.com said:
> Can somehow we treat(emulate) memory device as a block device and
> treat memory device like a hard disk ?

Not directly, no. There are drivers which do so -- and present a flash 
device as a block device using translation layers of various complexity, 
but that is not a true representation of the capabilities of the underlying 
device.

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dwmw2