From: Bill Roman <roman@alerton.com>
To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Block device as MTD
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 16:41:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B3A6F17.2CA185CF@alerton.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E15FNP2-0000LQ-00@spoinky.secret.org.uk
Simon Evans wrote:
>
> Basically it wont work. blkmtd isnt actually a driver more a translation
> layer. If you want to talk to CF cards directly, you'll have to write an
> MTD driver for it. I dont know much about CF cards as I have always used
> them as IDE drives, but you may want to look at the PCMCIA utils memory_cs
> driver. I think CF cards can appear as regular PCMCIA flash memory cards
> until a bit is enabled that puts them into IDE mode.
>
> I tried a test once using the memory_cs driver on a CF and whilst it
> gave me some memory regions, they werent the correct size. Basically,
> you'll have to do some hacking around on the driver to get it to work
> but I dont know where to find specs for CF cards.
Compact Flash information is at http://www.compactflash.org/
A spec may be downloaded after registering at http://www.compactflash.org/specdl1.htm
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-27 23:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-26 10:33 Block device as MTD Simon Evans
2001-06-26 18:22 ` Tim Riker
2001-06-26 20:19 ` Simon Evans
2001-06-26 21:41 ` Bao C. Ha
2001-06-26 20:58 ` Simon Evans
2001-06-26 23:12 ` kira brown
2001-06-26 23:32 ` Bao C. Ha
2001-06-27 6:49 ` Felix Radensky
2001-06-27 22:03 ` Simon Evans
2001-06-27 23:41 ` Bill Roman [this message]
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2001-06-28 7:39 Michel Stempin
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