Re: [NTLK] ATA support and partitioning cards?

From: keith (keith_at_vortex.co.uk)
Date: Tue Sep 21 2004 - 07:50:36 PDT


> > Okay, before I go down this road without knowing enough, is it
>> feasible - and sensible - to get a large-ish ATA-format memory card
>> and use Paul's ATA driver (paying for it, of course! :-) to format it
> > to more manageable chunks? Is partitioning it easy to do?

>I use Paul's ATA driver and a SanDisk 32 meg card in my 2100. I have 4 8 meg
>partitions on the card and it works like a charm. Easy and rock solid.

Thanks Alan - that's a good start. I'm actually thinking of using a
card which is a few hundred megabytes, and I was imagining that I'd
partition it into multiple 32MB chunks. Has anyone got any experience
of working with cards of this size, is 32MB a bit big for a single
partition, and is this all pushing the envelope just that bit too
much?

How about the speed differences between flash memory and ATA-based
memory that you mention? Can anybody quantify this at all?

k

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