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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.

  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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