Compact Flash Questions

[Jörn Engel]

On Mon, 5 May 2008 11:56:22 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Mon, 5 May 2008 08:36:15 -0700
> "Yigal Sadgat" <YSadgat1 at gcte.com> wrote:
> 
> > Is this the right place to discuss CF low-level questions like Kernel 
> > drivers?
> 
> Sorry, no.  Compact Flash presents itself as an IDE device, and does
> not allow access to the raw flash contained within.  MTD is used for
> accessing raw flash.
> 
> You might try posting your questions on the linux kernel mailing list.

linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org and possibly linux-ide at vger.kernel.org on
Cc:.  Ignoring any "error was corrected" information is bad advice
indeed, as such data should get rewritten immediately.  And if the
controller is not smart enough to do it automatically, enough errors
will accumulate over time to become uncorrectable.

Jörn

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