From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from router.alerton.com ([206.63.253.200] helo=ls.alerton.com) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 15FOqS-0008BY-00 for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 00:35:40 +0100 Received: from alerton.com (IDENT:roman@songdog.alerton.com [192.168.1.47]) by ls.alerton.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA25321 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2001 16:41:11 -0700 Message-ID: <3B3A6F17.2CA185CF@alerton.com> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 16:41:11 -0700 From: Bill Roman MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: Block device as MTD References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: 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