MMC quirks relating to performance/lifetime.
From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)
Date: 2011-02-12 17:05:47
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On Friday 11 February 2011 23:33:42 Andrei Warkentin wrote:
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 3:13 AM, Arnd Bergmann [off-list ref] wrote:
Yes, this is a Toshiba card. I've sent the patch as a reply to Linus' email. cid - 02010053454d3332479070cc51451d00 csd - d00f00320f5903ffffffffff92404000 erase_size - 524288 fwrev - 0x0 hwrev - 0x0 manfid - 0x000002 name - SEM32G oemid - 0x0100 preferred_erase_size - 2097152
Very interesting. So the manfid is the same as on most Kingston cards,
but the oemid is different. Most cards have a two-letter ASCII code
in there, 0x544d ("TM") on Kingston cards, and I always assumed that
this stood for "Toshiba Memory".
What is even stranger is the size value (among other fields) in the CSD,
the card claims a size of exactly 32GB, which I find hard to believe,
given that there are always some bad and reserved blocks.
Are you sure that the card you have is authentic? I've heard a lot about
fake USB sticks advertising a size that is much larger than the actual
flash inside of them.
Also this is the first card that I see advertise an allocation unit
size of 2MB (preferred_erase_size), all other cards seem to advertise
4 MB these days, even if they actually have 2 or 8 MB.
Arnd