Re: Flash device IDs

From: David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Date: Tue Apr 23 2002 - 07:45:42 EST

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Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl said:
> No, I am afraid this thing doesn't let me talk to raw flash, or if it
> does, I have not yet discovered how.

Ok... so when you issue write commands, you're pretending it's a normal
SCSI hard drive and issuing requests with the _logical_ block numbers? You
don't have to grok the SmartMedia format and issue _physical_ addresses on
the flash, handle ECC, the block chains, etc.?

-- dwmw2

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