From: "Artem B. Bityutskiy" <dedekind@yandex.ru>
To: linux@horizon.com
Cc: kalin@thinrope.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Lifetime of flash memory
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 17:55:19 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44269D47.3010703@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060323074929.26749.qmail@science.horizon.com>
linux@horizon.com wrote:
> On startup, the first thing a thumb drive or CompactFlash card does is
> read the extra 16 bytes from every sector and build a translation map,
> so when a request for a given logical sector comes in, it knows where
> to find it. Note that there are more sectors on the ROM than on the
> hard drive it emulates, so there's always some spare space.
Hello,
some time ago I tried to find any documentation about CF internals, but
failed. It seems like you may hint me where to find it, may you?
--
Best Regards,
Artem B. Bityutskiy,
St.-Petersburg, Russia.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-26 13:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-23 7:49 Lifetime of flash memory linux
2006-03-26 13:55 ` Artem B. Bityutskiy [this message]
2006-03-26 16:21 ` linux
2006-03-26 16:36 ` Artem B. Bityutskiy
2006-03-27 16:18 ` Lennart Sorensen
2006-03-27 17:44 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-03-27 18:01 ` Lennart Sorensen
2006-03-28 4:28 ` Sergei Organov
2006-03-28 6:41 ` Magnus Damm
2006-03-28 8:58 ` Sergei Organov
2006-03-28 12:55 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-03-28 13:27 ` Sergei Organov
2006-03-28 13:35 ` Sergei Organov
2006-03-29 1:01 ` linux
2006-03-29 4:33 ` Sergei Organov
2006-03-29 15:56 ` linux
2006-03-30 6:33 ` Sergei Organov
2006-03-30 11:23 ` linux
2006-03-30 12:18 ` Sergei Organov
2006-03-28 0:21 ` Bill Davidsen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-03-21 17:01 John Richard Moser
2006-03-21 17:14 ` David Vrabel
2006-03-21 17:28 ` John Richard Moser
2006-03-21 18:37 ` Paulo Marques
2006-03-21 18:00 ` hackmiester / Hunter Fuller
2006-03-21 18:20 ` Joshua Kugler
2006-03-21 18:40 ` John Richard Moser
2006-03-23 3:46 ` Kalin KOZHUHAROV
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