[Coco] 2gig CF card killed

John W. Linville linville at tuxdriver.com
Tue Mar 25 10:16:07 EDT 2008


On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 06:09:10AM -0800, Kevin Diggs wrote:
> Joef6809 wrote:
>> Theres also a wear leveling algorithm employed to keep a given group of 
>> memory cells from burning out before all others.
>>
>>> From Hell's heart I STore Accumulator B at thee!
>>
> Anyone know if "wear leveling" is built into the flash chips themselves? Or 
> is it a feature of the standard media form factors (i.e. compact flash, SD, 
> memory stick)?

The latter.  And some do it better than others.

Hth!

John
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