Re: SmartMedia FAT

["" <simon@baydel.com>]

Thanks too all for your help. I have started to write my own block 
driver using the FTL code as a guide. It seems fairly simple and 
should not take too long.


Thanks Again 

Simon. 

On 27 Oct 2003 at 15:45, simon@baydel.com wrote:

> I would like to be able to access FAT partitions on a SMC via Linux.
> Curently the hardare loads its' configuration and boots the hardware
> from files on a FAT partition. The hardware itself has no hardware
> flash translation layer. The SMC has been created on a USB device
> which contains a flash translation layer conforming to the SFFDC
> standard. After this a JFFS2 root is mounted. It would be nice if I
> could change the hardware and boot files from Linux but I have been
> unable to find any reliable way of accessing the FAT filesystem.
> 
> As far as I understand, from the information I have read, I would need
> to create  a block driver which contained a SSFDC compatible
> translation layer ? In the nand FAQ it mentions SmartMedia FAT. I have
> been unable to find how this is implemented. Has anyone implemented
> this yet ?
> 
> I would like to know if my assumptions are correct. If so I guess
> there are many ways this could be achieved. 
> 
> 1. Wrirte my on block driver ?
> 2. Bolt on some bits to mtdblock ?
> 3. As I don't do this all the time write a user app to update via
> /dev/mtd
> 
> All comments welcome.
> 
> 
> Many Thanks
> 
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> Email : simon@baydel.com
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