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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2022
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Alexei Frolikov, San Jose, CA (US);
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods, and apparatus related to memory devices. In one approach, a memory (e.g., NAND flash memory of a solid-state drive) is allocated to a namespace for use by a host device. Master boot record (MBR) data is written by a controller of the memory to an MBR region assigned to the namespace. Read circuitry is configured to read either of user data or MBR data in response to read commands received from the host device for addresses in the namespace. The user data or the MBR data is read using a regular read operation of the controller (e.g., without triggering any hardware exceptions that require significantly slower processing by firmware of the controller).