Re: Lifetime of flash memory

[Artem B. Bityutskiy]

linux@xxxxxxxxxxx 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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Best Regards,
Artem B. Bityutskiy,
St.-Petersburg, Russia.
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