Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Jul 2000 13:59:44 -0700 | From | Matthew Dharm <> | Subject | SmartMedia translation layer? |
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Does anyone out there have a translation later for SmartMedia?
For those not in the know, SmartMedia uses its own physical format which tags blocks of data with control information that allows a simple form of memory-remapping and management to provide robustness in a flash-based removable media device.
All in all, it's really quite slick and very technically cool.
However, the usb-storage development team is working on implementing support for a USB SmartMedia reader/writer. To do this, we need to have code which can take care of this re-mapping system. We're wondering if anyone out there has such code allready (perhaps even in use with Linux).
If not, we're prepared to write our own management system... but if there is existing code out there we can leverage, it would be really nice.
Matt
P.S. Does anyone know of any other SmartMedia devices out there for which this translation-layer might be useful? Perhaps we can modularize it somewhere commonly accessable in the future.
-- Matthew Dharm Home: mdharm@one-eyed-alien.net Senior Engineer, QCP Inc. Work: mdharm@qcpi.com
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