on or about 8/7/01 10:13 AM, the following may or may not have been typed by
Victor Rehorst at victor_at_newtontalk.net:
>> 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?
The key there is "What is the block size?" If it's some reasonable size (~
1K) then I expect you'll never notice the loss of something smaller than one
percent of your memory. (unless, of course, something very important is
there...)
- Eric.
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