mtd: looking for serial flash storage

Tue Oct 9 02:02:12 EDT 2001

You need 13 address lines for a DoC (A0..A12).

There are drivers in Linux 2.4.x for Disk-on-Key (The M-Systems USB devices)

Hamish

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-mtd-admin at lists.infradead.org
> [mailto:linux-mtd-admin at lists.infradead.org]On Behalf Of David Woodhouse
> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 11:38 AM
> To: brendan.simon at bigpond.com
> Cc: mtd
> Subject: Re: mtd: looking for serial flash storage
>
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>
> brendan.simon at bigpond.com said:
> >  I can  not easily use a DiskOnChip as there are only 12 address lines
> > from the  CPU board connector available to me.  I am investigating
> > serial flash  devices.  Are there any that MTD or Linux supports ???
>
> You don't need 12 address lines for a DiskOnChip, do you?
>
> > I know about the Atmel data flash devices.  Are they supported by
> > Linux  or MTD ???
>
> I'm not sure what devices you're referring to - do you have a reference?
>
> > I am interested in investigating the chipsets that the key ring type
> > USB  hard drives use.  Does anyone know what chipsets these are ?
> > Does MTD  or Linux support them ???
>
> The flash in those devices is generally just standard NAND flash,
> which is
> supported by Linux. I have no idea about the microcontrollers which are
> used to do the translation layer and emulate a hard drive.
>
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