Doni - I noticed you never commented on this after raising the question; did RP leave it too open-ended by saying 'his undestanding'..

IMO It is positive that it can work within.

Dear Robert -

Please allow me to restructure this question... Trying to understand how we may differ and have advantages from other processes.

*Specifically, can claim 6 line (b) of patent 737 when marking bad segments under a read/write block logical format size....salvage the balance of the erase block(array) , or would the whole array be marked dead?

Respectfully, Tim

Hi, Tim,

''It's my understanding that the marking of defective memory segments is not limited to the whole array.''

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My Reply to the board -

So it might appear they don't have to 'mark(kill) the whole array having a bad bit'

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