On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 17:27, Joe Drew wrote: > Russell Coker wrote: > > The > > flash devices with ATA or USB interfaces are SUPPOSED to do wear levelling > > internally, but rumor has it that they often don't. > > Most don't because they are cheap, and the patents which cover > implementing wear levelling in hardware are expensive. Well, the bad news is that there is a patent... sigh. Good news is that at least SanDisk uses wear leveling: http://www.sandisk.com/pdf/oem/WPaperWearLevelv1.0.pdf Found with http://www.google.com/search?q=flash%20wear%20leveling%20patent first hit. Greetings, Oliver
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