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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2005
Filed:
May. 07, 2003
Norman C. Chou, San Jose, CA (US);
Prasad Vajjhala, San Jose, CA (US);
Daniel Bourke, San Francisco, CA (US);
Norman C. Chou, San Jose, CA (US);
Prasad Vajjhala, San Jose, CA (US);
Daniel Bourke, San Francisco, CA (US);
Agilent Technologies, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method for facilitating detection of, and recovery from, data contamination in a non-volatile storage device coupled to an interconnect device includes receiving data to be written to a content area on a non-volatile storage device coupled to an interconnect device, updating a contamination indicator stored in a supplemental area of the non-volatile storage device with a first value indicating potential data contamination in the content area, and transferring the data to the non-volatile storage device for a write to the content area. Further, if a determination is made that the write of the transferred data has completed, the contamination indicator is updated with a second value indicating lack of data contamination in the content area.