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Re: [lpc2000] Re: Cheap SD Flash File System

2005-11-10 by Sten

Bill Knight wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 15:44:54 -0000, Paul Curtis wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi Bill, 
> 
> 
>>>A pretty good, open-source, no-pay FAT layer is available at 
>>><http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~pje/rdcf2.txt>.  The 
>>>implementation there is limited to FAT16 but can be extended 
>>>and has a lot of nice features.
> 
> 
>>FAT12 is more complex than FAT16 when dealing with FAT 12-bit FAT
>>entries that span a sector.  A lot of SD cards are formatted FAT12 by
>>default, so FAT16 is no good...  Its requirements are also pretty high,
>>requiring a 1K static buffer.  The PRLLC implementation (and mine for
>>that matter) can run with a 512-byte static or dynamic buffer.
> 
> 
>>I'll take a look at this.  It's something that I didn't find using
>>Google, which is why I wrote my own implementation that is now part of
>>NetBASIC.
> 
> 
>>Regards,
> 
> 
>>--
>>Paul Curtis, Rowley Associates Ltd  http://www.rowley.co.uk
>>CrossWorks for MSP430, ARM, AVR and now MAXQ processors
> 
> 
> 
> Paul
>   I may be off on which FATxxx it supports.  It has been a while since
> I last used it.  It was written quite a while ago and lacked support
> for larger drives.  Best check the docs and code to determine exactly
> what it does support.
> 

Hello,

does somebody have some good documentations about FAT12/16/32? (And
would share it?) ;-)

  Sten

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