On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Eugen Leitl <[email protected]> wrote: > Wear levelling is a function of newer devices (your old > USB flash sticks are unlikely to have it, but your new > SSD definitely has) and it hides damaged blocks > transparently by using the overprovisioned flash > block pool (its size depending on on whether consumder or > enterprise drive, the latter having more overprovisioning).
Does it mean that you ran the commands above on a FAT32-formatted media and got a result different from 0? > It might be possible to access the damaged blocks > via a debug function, or by flashing the drive > with custom firmware. Did you try a bigger file? -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
