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

From: Victor Rehorst (victor_at_newtontalk.net)
Date: Tue Aug 07 2001 - 10:13:14 EDT

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On 7 Aug 2001, Stainless Steel Rat wrote:

> 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.

...except that there will be less free space available, right?

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