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

From: Eric L. Strobel (fyzycyst_at_home.com)
Date: Tue Aug 07 2001 - 10:42:46 EDT


on or about 8/7/01 10:34 AM, the following may or may not have been typed by
Victor Rehorst at victor_at_newtontalk.net:

>> 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...)
>
> Block size for all linear flash, IIRC, is 64KB.

Ouch! That you'd probably notice. So now, is there some utility that can
be run to detect problems (I'm thinking something similar to a HD formatting
utility that can run tests on the HD.)??

- Eric.

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