MTD on a USB SmartMedai Reader
Charles Manning
manningc2 at actrix.gen.nz
Wed Apr 23 15:51:49 EDT 2003
On Wednesday 23 April 2003 21:14, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 18:00, Sid Gluckman wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I want to access a SmartMedia card on a USB adapter with JFFS2
> > filesystem. The USB reader is recognized fine and seems to detect the
> > card correctly. My question is how can I direct the MTD subsystem to use
> > the USB adapter?
>
> I suspect that you don't. Although SmartMedia is basically just NAND
> flash, the USB 'cardreader' will probably be hiding all that from you
> and presenting itself USB mass storage device. Turn on CONFIG_SCSI and
> CONFIG_USB_STORAGE.
It depends on the card reader.
Some of them look like a USB mass storage device (which would not work with
mtd as NAND). Some send read/write/erase commands over the USB link - these
could be made visible as NAND under mtd.
-- CHarles
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