Patent ID: 7616480

Claim:
A non-volatile storage system, comprising: a set of non-volatile storage elements; control lines in communication with said set of non-volatile storage elements; and a managing circuit in communication with said set of non-volatile storage elements and said control lines, said managing circuit determines whether said set of non-volatile storage elements are in a first condition and charges a first set of said control lines for non-volatile storage elements determined to not be in said first condition, said managing circuit charges a second set of said control lines for non-volatile storage elements determined to be in said first condition, said charging of said second set of said control lines is commenced subsequently to commencing said charging of said first set of said control lines so that at least a subset of said second set of said control lines couple to at least a subset of said first set of said control lines in response to said charging of said second set of control lines, said managing circuit senses information about said non-volatile storage elements associated with said first set of said control lines in response to charging of said first set of said control lines and said charging of said second set of said control lines.