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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] MEMSTICK: Add driver for Ricoh R5C592 Card reader.
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On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 00:22 -0700, Alex Dubov wrote: 
> > Maximum I might need to clear page status bits, but I can
> > do that later
> > after I write the block.
> > This won't be any performance impact because amount of bad
> > pages
> > shouldn't be normally greater that zero.
> > (Otherwise there will be data loss...)
>
>
> These things do degrade. I think, memsticks do write-verify, so bad blocks
> will appear during write and can be marked as such without any data loss.
>
> >
> > One interesting thing that I just want your opinion on is
> > what to do
> > with correctable errors.
> > Common sense suggests to relocate the sector + and mark it
> > bad.
> > But I don't know how common such sectors are, and thus I
> > could do more
> > harm that good by marking too many sectors as bad.
>
> I agree that number of writes to the media should be kept minimal.
> So bad (in either way) blocks encountered should be logged, but not
> touched, unless the error appears during an actual write/modify operation.
>
> >
> > I hope I create ms_block.c soon, and put that old problem
> > to the rest.
>
> If you have time and desire, try to put a low level format option in -
> some function to erase all blocks, except the system ones.
>
> >
> > As time permits I will also port your driver for xD portion
> > of jMicron
> > device (which I have).
>
> By the way, I've got some errata for the newer JMicron chipsets. If they
> have not contacted you yet, I'll forward it to you.

Yeah, I didn't done anything at that direction, but eventually I get to
it.


Best regards,
Maxim Levitsky



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