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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 1998
Filed:
Aug. 19, 1994
Shinpei Komatsu, Yokohama, JP;
Yumi Ishii, Yokohama, JP;
Tomohiro Hayashi, Yokohama, JP;
Shogo Shibazaki, Yokohama, JP;
Hiroyuki Itoh, Kawasaki, JP;
Masaru Takehara, Yokohama, JP;
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
Data transferred from a host computer to a memory device is written into sectors whose addresses in a memory area are decoded by a decode table. Old data to be updated by the above data is erased or marked with erase flags. At a predetermined point of time, in order to create free areas, necessary data is evacuated to a primary memory media and unnecessary data indicated by erase flags is erased by a unit of predetermined memory size. Part of the memory media which has become defective is marked with a defect flag, and is replaced by an alternate area. In doing so, the decode table is rewritten to rearrange the memory area.