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possibilities with raw flash access

possibilities with raw flash access

Posted Aug 27, 2009 18:07 UTC (Thu) by robert_s (subscriber, #42402)
In reply to: possibilities with raw flash access by markusw
Parent article: The trouble with discard

"I don't know any device for commodity computers which allows raw NAND access."

It's not pretty, but there used to be a USB XD card reader chip called alauda which would expose the XD/SM card ( they are both basically repackaged NAND chips ) as an MTD. Linux drivers are in the tree I think.

Useful for little more than experimentation. And only then if you're good at hunting for one on ebay.


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