Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

The Flash in a usb drive is nand flash. It dies fairly regularly so the driver chip maintains a region of the flash for replacement sectors when one dies and does this invisibly to the operating system. (ie you will eventually get failures to write when all the spare flash is used up)

The flash in the emu products is nor flash which will have 10000 or 100000 erase cycle tolerance after which you won't be able to write any more. There is no controller chip and likely no software to detect and work around sectors that fail.

This is highly unlikely to be a cause of the problem and comoaction should be the solution.

--- Original Message ---

From: Bruno <brunorc@gmail.com>
Sent: August 4, 2012 8/4/12
To: xl7@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [xl7] Re: Shrinking flash RAM?

    

2012/8/3 steve_the_composer <smw-mail@prodigy.net>:
> I don't know if this is true or not, but it might be:
>
> http://superuser.com/questions/102228/what-happens-when-a-flash-drive-wears-out

Thanks, Steve. Sounds reasonable.

I think I will try to find out if the Flash RAM can be replaced (and
what would be the cost).

Bruno


 
  
  
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