Re: Flash Media Driver

From: Sachin Patel [MS] (sapatel_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/17/04 

Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 14:39:30 -0700

How are you partitioning the flash? Are you using bootpart? It is possible
that some blocks are getting marked read-only in your FAT partition. Check
FMD_GetBlockStatus to see which blocks if any are marked read-only. Also,
is your image XIP directly from flash or are you using BINFS?

Sachin 

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"divya" <divya.manian@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:cfs7ch$ga9$1@newshost.mot.com...
> I think I have framed my query badly. Here it goes:
>
> I am using WinCE 5.00. I have a NOR flash which is divided such that some
> part of it is used to store the winCE OS Image and the rest is used as a
> file system.
>
> My device driver (in the function FMD_GetInfo()) returns the correct
blocks
> and sectors. I have not locked the access to any device.
>
> For the file system, I am specifying the FAT file system. In the 4.2, the
> program works (with a few minor changes in the registry), but in 5.0 it
does
> not.
>
> Moreover, without specifiying the FAT filesystem in the registry, my Flash
> Read/Write test case 1002 passes. But when I specify the FAT filesystem in
> the registry it hangs at "50% complete".
>
> Is there anything wrong with my registry settings?
>
> Regards
>
> Divya Manian
>
>
>
> "divya" <divya.manian@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:cfrov3$eak$1@newshost.mot.com...
> > Hi
> >
> > I have a NOR Flash device. I have written the Driver and set the
registry
> > settings so that it shows up as a FAT filesystem on the "My Device". I
can
> > even copy paste files into it. However, I cant copy or create new
folders.
> > It gives me an error : "Access Denied. Ensure that the disk is not write
> > protected or full". But then I am able to copy files into it! Is there
> > someway I have gone wrong with my registry settings? The relevant
registry
> > settings are:
> >
> > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\StorageManager\Profiles\FlashDisk]
> >  "FileSystem"="fatfsd.dll"
> >  "PartitionDriver"="mspart.dll"
> >  "AutoMount"=dword:1
> >  "AutoPart"=dword:1
> >  "AutoFormat"=dword:1
> >  "Name"="XXXX"
> >  "Folder"="NOR Flash"
> > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\StorageManager\Profiles\FlashDisk\FATFS]
> >  "MountSystem"=dword:1
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Divya Manian
> >
> >
>
>

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