Re: [NTLK] wearing out internal memory? (longish)

From: Stainless Steel Rat (ratinox_at_peorth.gweep.net)
Date: Tue Aug 07 2001 - 00:08:53 EDT

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* "Eric Byrne" <ericbyrne_at_eircom.net> on Mon, 06 Aug 2001
| I could be wrong here but I think that the Newton OS is not that
| sophisticated in this regard, and when a block or more die on a storage
| card anyhow, the card is shot? I think that laptops are better in this
| regard?

It is not the Newton's OS that marks bad blocks, it is the flash circuitry
itself. When a block "dies" it is marked bad. This is transparent to the
overlying OS, which is never aware that anything has happened.

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