Patent ID: 6591328
Filing Date: 2003-07-08
Classification: G06F,G11B

Abstract:
A mass storage device having a non-volatile memory comprising a plurality of segments each having a plurality of erasable blocks containing a plurality of pages, wherein said non-volatile memory comprises:an operand-data block used for storing operand data and operand identification data which indicates that data which is stored in said operand data block is operand data; and a logical/physical address control table located in a block of the plurality of blocks in the last segment of the plurality of segments of the memory and being used for storing a logical/physical address control table and control-table identification data which indicates that data which is stored in said logical/physical address control table block is logical/physical address control table data comprising logical addresses and physical addresses, wherein the logical/physical address control table can be moved to any block in the last segment of the non-volatile memory and the control-table identification data is used to find the location of the logical/physical address control table after having been moved, the logical address shows the logical order of data, and the physical address shows the physical location of particular data stored within the non-volatile memory.