Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 26 Mar 2006 17:55:19 +0400 | From | "Artem B. Bityutskiy" <> | Subject | Re: Lifetime of flash memory |
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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?
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