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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 01, 2012
Phison Electronics Corp., Miaoli, TW;
Te-Change Tsui, Hsinchu, TW;
Tzung-Lin Wu, Taichung, TW;
Phison Electronics Corp., Miaoli, TW;
Abstract
A memory storage device and a repairing method thereof are provided. The memory storage device has a rewritable non-volatile memory module having multiple physical units. The physical units include at least one backup physical unit which is configured to be accessed only by a specific command set and stored with at least one customized data. The method includes receiving a specific read command from a host system for reading the backup physical unit and transmitting the customized data therein to the host system when the memory storage device is capable of receiving and processing commands from the host system, the specific read command belongs to the specific command set; and writing the customized data from the host system into a corresponding physical unit to restore the memory storage device to a factory setting when receiving the writing command from the host system for writing the customized data.