Thread (62 messages) 62 messages, 9 authors, 2011-03-08

MMC quirks relating to performance/lifetime.

From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)
Date: 2011-02-12 17:05:47
Also in: linux-mmc

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
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