Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: XD/smartmedia - how to implement it right? | Date | Mon, 7 Dec 2009 16:13:43 +0100 |
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On Sunday 06 December 2009, Maxim Levitsky wrote: > Supporting wear leveling in hardware is easier, because this way, they > can be sure it works well, and not depend on each and every driver > implementation to do that right.
Assuming that hardware engineers know what they are doing, yes. Unfortunately the hardware people seem to be just as clueless about this as the every device driver writer, which actually makes this much worse. Having bad wear leveling in hardware often means that the card eats your data, no matter what the driver does. Doing it in software means that it's broken most of the time but fixable.
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