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ddieckma@cliftonlabs.com said:
> I'm looking into the feasibility of developing a driver for a USB
> FLASH storage device.

Are you sure this USB device really looks like flash to the computer?

I thought that USB devices, just like CompactFlash, had a kind of
translation layer built in which does everything for you, including wear
levelling. They just appear as a USB storage device, don't they?

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dwmw2