Patent ID: 7954039

Claim:
A memory card having a plurality of flash memories and a memory controller for controlling operation of said plurality of flash memories, wherein: said memory controller performs a write access control of said plurality of flash memories in response to an external write access instruction, and an alternation control for substituting a storage area of a write access error-related flash memory with another storage area; each of said plurality of flash memories includes a plurality of sectors, said alternation control being performed individually for each of said plurality of flash memories; said memory controller causes said plurality of flash memories to operate for parallel access in said write access control, and issues addresses, of which a first address is for a first flash memory and a second address is for a second flash memory; said memory controller controls issuing said addresses, such that said first address and said second address indicate same location sectors, when both of said sector of said first flash memory indicated by said first address and said sector of said second flash memory indicated by said second address are valid; and said memory controller controls issuing said addresses, such that said first address and said second address indicate different location sectors, when said sector of said first flash memory indicated by said first address is valid and a sector of said second flash memory on same location of said sector of said first flash memory indicated by said first address is invalid.