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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2015
Filed:
May. 31, 2011
A. Kent Porterfield, Lino Lakes, MN (US);
A. Kent Porterfield, Lino Lakes, MN (US);
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure includes apparatus (e.g., computing systems, memory systems, controllers, etc.) and methods for providing data integrity. One or more methods can include, for example: receiving a number of sectors of data to be written to a number of memory devices; appending first metadata corresponding to the number of sectors and including first integrity data to the number of sectors, the first metadata has a particular format; generating second integrity data to be provided in second metadata, the second integrity data corresponding to at least one of the number of sectors (wherein the second metadata has a second format); and generating third integrity data to be provided in the second metadata, the third integrity data including error data corresponding to the second integrity data and the at least one of the number of sectors.