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Re: [lpc2000] MMC filesystem speed

2005-11-22 by David Hawkins

> 
> So, treat the MMC device as a block mapped device rather than a file 
> structured device.  You won't have a filesystem on it, but you'll have 
> your data.   You can use dd to extract your data.  If you are are under 
> cygwin the dd command should be there.  Under windows itself you would 
> have to write some software to do what un*x gives you for free.

If you use Cygwin and are used to Linux where you can mount devices
in a raw format, then the utility filedisk works out to be pretty
useful. You can mount iso images via a loopback device as under
Linux, you can create a fake floppy and dd data to and from it
to use as a boot floppy for VmWare, and I am sure it'll be
useful for raw sector access to an MMC.

(I've no affiliation with this, just played with it when using
Vmware).

A Google search for 'filedisk' shows up this site:

http://www.acc.umu.se/~bosse/

I think this is the utility I am referring to :)
(Haven't used it for a while)

Dave

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