Method, system and computer program product for recovery of formatting in repair of bad sectors in flash memory
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsMarc Dickenson, John Langford, Atit Patel
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Abstract
A method for correcting a formatting error in a flash memory is disclosed. An error in a first formatting of a first flash memory is discovered, and a second formatting is extracted from a second flash memory storing second data. The erroneous first formatting is replaced with a modification of the second formatting, and first data is stored in the first flash memory with the modification of the second formatting. The first data is different from the second data.
Claims20
A method for correcting a formatting error in a flash memory, said method comprising:
- discovering an error in a first formatting of a first flash memory;
- extracting from a second flash memory storing second data a second formatting;
- replacing said erroneous first formatting with a modification of said second formatting;
- and
- storing first data in said first flash memory with said modification of said second formatting, wherein said first data is different from said second data.
A system for correcting a formatting error in a flash memory, said system comprising:
- means for discovering an error in a first formatting of a first flash memory;
- means for extracting from a second flash memory storing second data a second formatting;
- means for replacing said erroneous first formatting with a modification of said second formatting;
- and
- means for storing first data in said first flash memory with said modification of said second formatting, wherein said first data is different from said second data.
A machine-readable medium having a plurality of instructions processable by a machine embodied therein, wherein said plurality of instructions, when processed by said machine, causes said machine to perform a method for correcting a formatting error in a flash memory comprising:
- discovering an error in a first formatting of a first flash memory;
- extracting from a second flash memory storing second data a second formatting;
- replacing said erroneous first formatting with a modification of said second formatting;
- and
- storing first data in said first flash memory with said modification of said second formatting, wherein said first data is different from said second data.
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