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Method and apparatus for allocating storage in a flash memory

  • US 5,860,082 A
  • Filed: 03/28/1996
  • Issued: 01/12/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/28/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for allocating storage in an auxiliary storage medium, the auxiliary storage medium comprising at least one partition of physical address space, the method comprising:

  • (a) organizing the partition into a plurality of regions, each region defining a portion of client address space which represents a number of units of physical address space in the partition; and

    (b) organizing each unit of physical address space into a plurality of allocations, each allocation including at least one block of physical data storage locations in the unit.

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