Smartmedia block mapping

[Matthew Dharm]

Well, in theory, yes.....

But the current code just makes the media look like traditional
block-media via the usb-storage driver.  You would need to do some
significant hacking to expose the low-level interface.

Matt

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Manning [mailto:manningc2 at actrix.gen.nz]
> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 3:47 PM
> To: Matthew Dharm; Holly Gates
> Cc: linux-mtd at lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: Smartmedia block mapping
>
>
> On Friday 25 July 2003 10:33, Matthew Dharm wrote:
> > The sddr09 driver in linux/usb/drivers/storage/ actually
> contains a
> > software implementation of the block-mapping needed.  The SDDR-09
> > actually forces the host to do this instead of making the
> device do
> > it.
> >
> > If you can find an SDDR-09 device, and are willing to re-write the
> > driver (it currently does not support any sort of raw
> access), then
> > you could do what you're trying to do.
>
> Thanx for that info Matt.
>
> This would indicate that the SDDR-09 would allow you to use
> YAFFS and JFFS2
> too!
>
>
> >
> > Matt
>