Quoting Gilad Ben-Yossef, from the post of Thu, 17 May:
>
> The tool would be useless. The underlying flash (probably NAND technology)
> storage works in erase blocks sizes, each of which can be written x (for
> value of x somewhere around 100,000 writes) before it becomes unreliable.
> The mor
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 11:06:35AM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> I have a question unrelated to the original question (and to Linux...):
> How does this "wear leveling" work if a card is mostly full? E.g., my
> typical situation is that I have a 512 MB card, but 450 MB of it is full
> (with pictures
Nadav Har'El wrote:
On Thu, May 17, 2007, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote about "Re: running testing patterns on
block devices":
The more writes, the lesser the useful life expetency. To combat this the
Compact Flash hardware does something called uses a "wear leveling
algorith
On Thu, May 17, 2007, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote about "Re: running testing
patterns on block devices":
> The more writes, the lesser the useful life expetency. To combat this the
> Compact Flash hardware does something called uses a "wear leveling
> algorithm" to vir
Ira Abramov wrote:
I have a flash card which I suspect has a defect. every time I go out
and take photos with it, at least one image file comes back corrupted.
to make sure it's not the cammera or something else, I thought it would
be nice to have a memtest-like tool that wrote patterns and tried
I have a flash card which I suspect has a defect. every time I go out
and take photos with it, at least one image file comes back corrupted.
to make sure it's not the cammera or something else, I thought it would
be nice to have a memtest-like tool that wrote patterns and tried to
read them again,
