Patent ID: 7624298

Claim:
A memory card in which data can be written to and read from by a host data processor, comprising: a host interface that transmits and receives a command and data to and from the host data processor; a nonvolatile memory that stores data; a controller that controls an operation of the memory card; and a storage that stores specified management information, wherein the management information includes retry setting information transferred from the host data processor through the host interface and characteristic information specific to the memory card, the retry setting information specifies whether a retry function is executed or not when an error occurs during an operation of writing data to the nonvolatile memory, and the controller refers to the retry setting information in the data writing operation, and controls the data writing operation so as to disable the retry function in the event of an error in the data writing operation, when the retry setting information indicates disabling of the retry function and to enable the retry function in the event of an error in the data writing operation, when the retry setting information indicates enabling of the retry function.