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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2016
Lite-on Electronics (Guangzhou) Limited, Guangzhou, CN;
Lite-on Technology Corporation, Taipei, TW;
Yu-Chuang Peng, Taipei, TW;
Min-I Hung, Taipei, TW;
LITE-ON ELECTRONICS (GUANGZHOU) LIMITED, Guangzhou, CN;
LITE-ON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, Taipei, TW;
Abstract
A method is provided for rebuilding a flash translation layer table of a solid state drive. The superblock includes plural superpages. Each of the plural superpages includes plural physical pages. The method includes steps of confirming if the flash translation layer table is lost or not after the solid state drive is powered on; if the flash translation layer table is lost, starting a superblock scanning method for determining a status of the superblock; and rebuilding the flash translation table according to the status of the superblock. The superblock scanning method includes steps of reading contents of a first physical page and a last physical page of a last superpage in the superblock, and determining a status of the superblock according to the contents of the first physical page and the last physical page.