From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <23c29e661aff42aa93b9a3744e43265e@terzarima.net> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] disk/^(mbr format fdisk prep) From: Charles Forsyth In-Reply-To: <87d46d1d5f9a68d65a67cfef88cfe63b@proxima.alt.za> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 12:38:58 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 74cb5954-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 >>No, I think what I have is raw Flash. I have a USB reader/writer and >>a thin client that treats Flash RAM as IDE (approximately, haven't >>quite figured out all the details yet). The think client is a bit of it sounds as though you're using Compact Flash, which isn't really very `raw'. the Compact Flash cards are commonly accessed using an ATA (IDE) IO interface, either by initialising in the same way as PCMCIA (CF and PCMCIA are almost the same except for form factor and a few other details), or by forcing it into a default ATA interface directly on power up. there's a bit more to it than that, but by and large, after setup, it looks like a disk, and it does all that inside the CF card. so, unlike raw flash memory, the disk/* commands are indeed what you'd use, unlike for `raw flash'.