[ECOS] FAT file system on floppy -> what do i need

[Savin Zlobec]

Andrew Lunn wrote:

>On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 02:27:17PM +0800, B.E.Comp Project wrote:
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>>hello all
>>
>>current ecos have fat filesystem support. this patch includes the
>>drivers for synthetic target, Disk driver for the Elatec v850
>>development board.
>>
>>now new patch has been added for ide disk driver.
>>
>>can i use this driver for FAT file system pakage. what will i have to
>>do access the FAT floppy disk (and file sytem functionalities) using
>>ecos.
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>You can have a FAT filesystem on an IDE driver. However, from what i
>understand about PC hardware is that floppy drivers don't use
>IDE. There is another controller. Currently there is no support for
>this controller in eCos.
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>
'Long time ago' David N. Welton made a port of an existing FDC driver to 
eCos.
It doesn't have io_disk interface since it was done prior to disk/fat, 
but it is probably
a good starting point. You can find the sources in the ecos-devel list 
archives :

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/ecos-devel/2003-08/msg00025.html

savin

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