Compact FLASH progress (Was: [9fans] disk/^(mbr format fdisk prep))

Compact FLASH progress (Was: [9fans] disk/^(mbr format fdisk prep))

[lucio]

> Although it doesn't sound like it's what you want anymore,
> you could use aux/disksim to get an sd(3)-like interface
> to an arbitrary file.

That was precisely where I wanted to go.  It all seems fine now, I
have successfully formatted the device as a Plan 9 IDE disk and booted
both 9load and the kernel from it.  Not a lot that one can do in 16Meg
(well I used to run a full development system under DOS in
considerably less disk space, but we've advanced from there :-) but
proof of concept was all I needed.

Just one caveat: It seems necessary to set the geometry "right" for
aux/disksim.  NetBSD reports a different geometry via USB from that
established by the Plan 9 ata device driver in the thin client.  There
really does not seem to be an easy route, what I did was bootstrap
Plan 9 via a DOS boot to query the geometry through /dev/sdC0/ctl.

++L

PS: Now back to the SiS_550 graphics :-(