From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
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Subject: Re: [9fans] disk/^(mbr format fdisk prep)
From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
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Date: Sat,  8 May 2004 10:08:50 +0100
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>I've been messing around with Flash RAM reading and writing, and I

raw flash is like neither disk nor RAM.  it has many peculiar
properties.  on that you'll need to use something like aux/flashfs on it,
after producing the platform-specific parts for devflash.c.
the format/prep commands don't apply.

possibly you're referring to one of the PC-card or USB flash disks?