Card and host apparatus

1. A method of controlling a memory card including a memory core and a memory controller,

the method comprising:

transmitting, in response to a first command, a response of status data that is used to determine whether the card supports a termination process, the termination process including shifting into a state ready for a stop of power supply from a host device;

performing the termination process in response to a function stop command from the host device;

transmitting a first signal indicative of a busy state while performing the termination process, the first signal being indicative of the busy state and having a first level; and

notifying the host device of completion of the busy state by transmitting a second signal indicative of a ready state and having a second level when the memory card completes the termination process.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the memory core includes a nonvolatile memory and the memory card further includes a volatile memory.

3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the termination process includes writing data stored in the volatile memory into the nonvolatile memory.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the memory card is configured to change information to indicate that the termination process has not been completed when a status of the memory card has changed since completion of a latest initialization.

5. The method according to claim 4 , further comprising:

receiving an initialization command instructing to carry out initialization;

executing initialization using a first initialization method when the information indicates that the termination process has not been completed; and

executing initialization using a second initialization method, which is finished quicker than the first initialization method, when a nonvolatile memory indicates that the termination process has been completed.

6. The method according to claim 5 , wherein the second initialization method comprises the first initialization method with a part of the first initialization method omitted.

7. The method according to claim 6 , wherein the omitted part includes at least one of: checking for errors of data stored in the nonvolatile memory; restoring the errors; constructing a translation table showing a relation between logical addresses of write data and physical addresses of the nonvolatile memory which stores the write data.