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FAT32 library |
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jeff-doggett (12:49 2/11/2007)
nunfetishist (15:24 2/11/2007)
Phlamethrower (15:40 2/11/2007)
nunfetishist (15:43 2/11/2007)
epistaxsis (19:33 2/11/2007)
jeff-doggett (00:00 3/11/2007)
jeff-doggett (08:01 17/11/2008)
druck (09:32 17/11/2008)
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Jeff Doggett |
Message #105095, posted by jeff-doggett at 12:49, 2/11/2007 |
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There's still no decent FAT32 implementation on the Iyonix for USB drives > 2GB. A quick google for FAT32 libraries has the very first result listed here: http://www.robs-projects.com/filelib.html
At first sight, this appears to be a very plausible library to build into a filecore module - ie filecore frontend and usb backend.
Anyone up for the challenge????!!! |
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Rob Kendrick |
Message #105098, posted by nunfetishist at 15:24, 2/11/2007, in reply to message #105095 |
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One of us is confused. FileCore *is* a file system, like FAT32. And the only file system it speaks is its own.
The 2GB limit happens because DOSFS is an image file system, and as such it expects to work on files, not block devices. This means that its API can't cope with large files.
Somebody could possibly write an entirely new file system module that interfaced directly to FileSwitch that used this library and spoke to the USB stack, but FileCore would be in no way involved. |
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Jeffrey Lee |
Message #105099, posted by Phlamethrower at 15:40, 2/11/2007, in reply to message #105098 |
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I think a few months ago someone on the Iyonix list released some work-in-progress drivers for reading FAT32 USB devices. But I can't remember who it was, what it was called, or what progress has been made. If I can remember, I'll have a hunt through my emails at home and try and find out more about it. |
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Rob Kendrick |
Message #105100, posted by nunfetishist at 15:43, 2/11/2007, in reply to message #105099 |
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I think Dave Higton did some work - but it was a bit of a hack, in BASIC, and could cause the OS to explode if you weren't careful.
I don't know if it was just a proof-of-concept, or something he was going to develop further.
Of course, the same issue exists using Simtec's stack, and it should be reasonably easy to make such a file system agnostic of stack by making it use the block driver's SWIs for reading and writing blocks: on the Iyonix, it'd work through SCSIFS, and with Simtec USB it'd use MassFS. |
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keith dunlop |
Message #105104, posted by epistaxsis at 19:33, 2/11/2007, in reply to message #105100 |
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yeah it was called ROFS.
But now the source is out I am expecting him to sort the problem out - and told him so at RISC OS SE :-p |
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Jeff Doggett |
Message #105109, posted by jeff-doggett at 00:00, 3/11/2007, in reply to message #105098 |
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Yes, of course I meant FileSwitch - realised shortly after hitting submit! Basically it needs a front end that recognises the disc geometry and fills in the FileSwitch API. And a backend that reads the sectors from the disc. |
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Jeff Doggett |
Message #108788, posted by jeff-doggett at 08:01, 17/11/2008, in reply to message #105109 |
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Right, I've had a crack at writing a module using the efsl embedded library from here http://www.efsl.be/
You can get the module from here:
http://jeffd.drobe.co.uk/
There's no wimp front end or anything user friendly. |
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David J. Ruck |
Message #108790, posted by druck at 09:32, 17/11/2008, in reply to message #108788 |
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Just as I bought 3 2GB micro SD cards instead of a couple of larger SDHC ones! I'll have to try that out tonight.
One thing I did notice using the Iyonix and both DOSFS and Win95FS at the weekend was the time it took to transfer 9000 files totalling 900MB to the SD card using a USB2 card reader. It seemed writing the FAT and directory was the main overhead, only copying one file every 2 seconds regardless of the size, and taking over 4 hours!
For the second card, I shared the Iyonix's directory over NFS using Moonfish, mounted the EEE PC on to it over the wireless network, and put the card its built in slot. It did the entire copy in under 20 minutes, including one dialog on an illegal file name which I probably took a few minutes to spot.
I've got some more files to copy on to the last SD card tonight, so it will be interesting to see the speed of Fat32FS |
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