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Subject: RE: Compact Flash File System Cougar??
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 12:38:05 -0800
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From: "Warren Gale" <warren.gale@onstor.com>
To: "Andy Sharp" <andy.sharp@onstor.com>

Andy,

Well, None.  The only examples with partition tables are the DOS files.
It's ok,  I think.   I believe I can get enough from the examples
without going into the actual bios function calls themselves.
Now I need to understand the functions that fill in the partition
structures. (Dam. Oh well.)

Thanks,
Warren

-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Sharp=20
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 12:28 PM
To: Warren Gale
Subject: Re: Compact Flash File System Cougar??

On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 12:11:10 -0700 "Warren Gale"
<warren.gale@onstor.com> wrote:

> Andy,
>=20
> =20
>=20
>             I think I'm starting to get the hang of the diffs between
> ufs and ext2 file systems.
>=20
> =20
>=20
> I pretty sure I have the higher level, but I'm struggling with the
> actual I/O section of EXT2FS stuff (:-))
>=20
> =20
>=20
> Last we talked I thought I heard you say something like the file
> system on the CF will be like DOS ??
>=20
>   DOS partitions?

Yeah, it will use a DOS partition table, but...


> I'm trying to get the "io_manager" section of the ext2fs structures to
> have the right functions to call, to actually talk
> to the hardware.
>=20
> =20
>=20
> The "DOS" examples seem to be the best fit so far. ( replace the bios
> functions with our hardware functions)

Uh, what others are there besides the DOS/bios functions?  The bios
functions are quite obtuse and arcane and likely to be very bad
examples.

a
