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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2012
Chien-hua Chu, Hsinchu County, TW;
Chien-Hua Chu, Hsinchu County, TW;
Phison Electronics Corp., Miaoli, TW;
Abstract
A block management method for managing physical blocks of a rewritable non-volatile memory module, and a memory controller and a memory storage device using the same are provided. The method includes maintaining an error information table for recording one or more error correctable physical blocks among the physical blocks and an error bit number corresponding to the one or more error correctable physical blocks. The method further includes selecting a physical block for writing data according to the one or more error correctable physical blocks and the error bit number thereof recorded in the error information table. Accordingly, the data stability of the memory storage device can be improved.