Re: Arcom Control Systems SBC-MediaGX

From: Roger Larsson (roger.larsson@norran.net)
Date: Mon Apr 10 2000 - 14:32:35 EST


Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > Does this sound like the sort of flash that is supported ???
>
> No
>
> > The FlashFX software has been designed to incorporated wear levelling
> > algorithms. The wear
>
> Three things you need to know.
>
> 1. The DOS drivers wont hekp you using a real OS
> 2. Wear levelling is meshed in a myriad of mostly stupid patents so
> adding your own support gets you a product that gets you sued in the
> USA.
> 3. The linux fs's dont work well on flash

Axis has released their JFFS (Journaling Flash File System), but it has
some
limitations: 2.0 based, ...

Check out:

http://www.developer.axis.com/software/jffs/

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