Determining sector status in a memory device
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Sep 25, 2012
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Aug 5, 2010
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Feb 3, 2009
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Feb 3, 2009
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The present disclosure includes methods, devices, modules, and systems for operating semiconductor memory. A number of method embodiments include reading data from memory cells corresponding to a sector of data, determining a number of the memory cells in a non-erased state, and, if the number of the memory cells in a non-erased state is less than or equal to a number of errors correctable by an ECC engine, determining the sector is erased.
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