On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, Sara Fonseca wrote: > Hi, > > In a Mass Storage Device, if a physical block is damaged, and one or > more logical blocks are lost, must the device remap the logical blocks > to different addresses? What are the alternatives(you might not have > more spave in the physical memory).
The device is not obliged to do anything when a block is damaged. But if you want to remap the block, that will make your device more reliable. Especially if you are able to save the data by remapping before the old block has failed completely. Of course if there's no more space available then you can't remap the block. Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl _______________________________________________ linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
