From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net ([194.217.242.90]) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22 #5 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1AEnt9-0004rG-6l for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 10:49:19 +0000 Received: from baydel.demon.co.uk ([158.152.156.193]) by anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1AEnry-00006G-0W for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 10:48:07 +0000 From: "" To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 10:21:52 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <3F9F94C0.28402.10FED3@localhost> In-reply-to: <3F9D3D98.6453.14E703@localhost> Content-description: Mail message body Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: SmartMedia FAT List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , 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 > > Simon.__________________________ > > Simon Haynes - Baydel > Phone : 44 (0) 1372 378811 > Email : simon@baydel.com > __________________________ > > > ______________________________________________________ > Linux MTD discussion mailing list > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-mtd/ __________________________ Simon Haynes - Baydel Phone : 44 (0) 1372 378811 Email : simon@baydel.com __________________________