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Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 13:58:56 -0700
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
To: "Warren Gale" <warren.gale@onstor.com>
Subject: Re: Compact Flash File System Cougar??
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On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 13:38:05 -0700 "Warren Gale"
<warren.gale@onstor.com> wrote:

> 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.)

Geez, you've got no hope if you can't even spell 'damn.'

If you remember, we drilled down into the code for the UFS and found
where it filled in the function that can handle reads from partitions.
If you know what I mean.

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