From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Dec 16 23:42:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E2B614F9A for ; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 23:42:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA94676; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 00:42:49 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id AAA78412; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 00:42:48 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199912170742.AAA78412@harmony.village.org> To: Jerry Alexandratos Subject: Re: CompactFlash Question Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 17 Dec 1999 02:12:54 EST." <19991217021254.A24433@hellboy> References: <19991217021254.A24433@hellboy> Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 00:42:48 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 : 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