Patent ID: 11861192
Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 19:
20. The storage controller as claimed in claim 18, further comprising:
a monitoring device configured to communicate with the status checker, to periodically monitor each of the plurality of flash memory regions every reference time, and to update the status information set of the status checker,
wherein the status checker is further configured to output monitoring information to the host through the interface circuit based on the updated status information set, and
wherein the monitoring information includes at least one of:
information of the first flash memory region being unavailable from among the plurality of flash memory regions;
a reason why the first flash memory region is unavailable;
information of the second flash memory region available from among the plurality of flash memory regions; and
the updated status information set.