| 摘要 |
A system and method for more flexibly managing flash memory devices, such that these devices can be more efficiently used to store data as flash disks. The present invention provides an improvement over background art methods by enabling erase units of different sizes to be erased. Preferably, the present invention is also operative with flash memory devices which are capable of erasing the memory in a plurality of different erase unit sizes, and more preferably, is able to select the most efficient erase unit size for erasing. The present invention is able to optionally and more preferably use a plurality of different decision rules in order to select the most efficient method for erasing and/or reading/writing data to the flash memory device. Most preferably, the present invention is able to detect the capabilities of the flash memory device, in order to be automatically operative with a plurality of different types of flash memory technologies. |
