From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from dell-paw-3.cambridge.redhat.com ([195.224.55.237] helo=passion.cambridge.redhat.com) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 16zzg5-0005F0-00 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 13:45:49 +0100 From: David Woodhouse In-Reply-To: References: To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net Subject: Re: Flash device IDs Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 13:45:42 +0100 Message-ID: <25728.1019565942@redhat.com> Sender: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl said: > No, I am afraid this thing doesn't let me talk to raw flash, or if it > does, I have not yet discovered how. Ok... so when you issue write commands, you're pretending it's a normal SCSI hard drive and issuing requests with the _logical_ block numbers? You don't have to grok the SmartMedia format and issue _physical_ addresses on the flash, handle ECC, the block chains, etc.? -- dwmw2