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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2017
Silicon Motion, Inc., Jhubei, Hsinchu County, TW;
Szu-I Yeh, New Taipei, TW;
SILICON MOTION, INC., Jhubei, Hsinchu County, TW;
Abstract
A data storage device utilized for storing a plurality of data includes a memory and a controller. The memory includes a plurality of blocks, and each of the blocks includes a plurality of physical pages. The controller is coupled to the memory and maps the logical pages to the physical pages of the memory. When the controller detects that a first logical page of the logical pages is a currently-used logical page, it detects whether or not the second logical page which belongs to the last logical page of the first logical page is a currently-used logical page in order to find what is truly the last currently-used logical page.