Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 00:42:48 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Jerry Alexandratos <darkstar@udel.edu> Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CompactFlash Question Message-ID: <199912170742.AAA78412@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 17 Dec 1999 02:12:54 EST." <19991217021254.A24433@hellboy> References: <19991217021254.A24433@hellboy>
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In message <19991217021254.A24433@hellboy> Jerry Alexandratos writes: : I've got a quick question for the people out there using CompactFlash : cards. What is the filesystem on these beasts. Any one you like. The ones that WinCE uses is just a FAT. : I'm looking at one of the TRGPro PalmOS devices <http://www.trgpro.com>; : and noticed that it supports what they call FFS (FAT File System). This is generally used for the older, more fragile PCMCIA Flash cards. I have a few of these old beasts knocking around from a raid on some old X terminals. : Is this just a fancy name for the MSDOSFS? No. It is like dos's FAT running head long into a log file system. : If so, have people out there had any luck with MSDOSFS formatted CF : cards, or do you all newfs them with (real) FFS? I've created, with the old wd driver patched, many CF cards for hacking on NetBSD/hpcmips. I added the kernel to the DOS partition and the userland files to the UFS partition I put on it. It was just a removable IDE disk man... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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