Re: Configuring 2nd CF IDE in PB 4.2

From: Adam Kodeda [MS] (adamkod_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/19/04


Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 16:57:36 -0700

What is the capacity of your CF card? Most CF cards operate in PIO mode
(the slowest of ATAPI transfer modes; i.e., non-DMA). The 4.2 sample ATAPI
driver's PIO routines are sub-optimal. This issue has been addressed in
5.0.

-- 
Adam Kodeda [MS]
Windows CE File Systems and Storage
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
"Neil Cowburn" <neil@online.cowburn.me.uk> wrote in message
news:uhlJYyTgEHA.216@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Michel,
>
> Thanks. I did something similar to this for the VIA ATAPI driver settings
> and it worked. One thing I've noticed is that it takes a long time (>60s)
> for the CF card to show up in Explorer. Is there anyway to speed that up?
>
> Cheers
> Neil
>
>
> "Michel Verhagen [eMVP]" <michel.verhagen@nospam.pts.nl> wrote in message
> news:OxNGooRgEHA.704@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > Hi Neil,
> >
> > You are probably using the generic IDE settings from
> > C:\WINCE420\PUBLIC\COMMON\OAK\DRIVERS\BLOCK\ATAPI. These settings are in
> > genericide.reg, and by default, slave devices are disabled. So what you
> > should do is copy the following from that .reg file in the above
mentioned
> > directory:
> >
> > ; Uncomment the following lines if you want to enable slave device.
> > ;[$(PCI_BUS_ROOT)\Template\GenericIDE\Device1]
> > ;   "Prefix"="DSK"
> > ;   "Dll"="atapi.dll"
> > ;   "Settings"=dword:A
> > ;   "DeviceId"=dword:1
> > ;   "Ioctl"=dword:4
> > ;   "IClass"=multi_sz:"{A4E7EDDA-E575-4252-9D6B-4195D48BB865}"
> >
> > And paste it in at the end of your platform.reg, and uncomment it. It's
> > generally not a good idea to modify anything in the public dir, so
that's
> > why we copy it to platform.reg.
> >
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> >
> > Michel Verhagen, eMVP
> > Windows CE Consultant
> > PTS Software
> > The Netherlands
> > [if you want to reply to me directly, remove .nospam from my email
> > address]
> >
> >
> > "Neil Cowburn [MVP]" <neil@online.cowburn.me.uk> wrote in message
> > news:enU$KQRgEHA.2896@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> >> I'm building a CEPC using a VIA EPIA VE5000 board. I have the VIA BSP
> >> 1.31
> >> installed and I'm using the PLE-KLE device configuration in my build.
> >>
> >> Other than the VE5000, the hardware consists of two Compact Flash cards
> > (1x
> >> 64MB for the ROM and 1x 256MB for persistent storage) attached as
master
> > and
> >> slave (respectively) on the primary IDE channel. For the life of me, I
> >> cannot configure the platform to detect the 2nd (256MB) CF card. The
> >> platform will build and deploy but only one "Hard Disk" appears in
> >> Windows
> >> Explorer on the CEPC.
> >>
> >> Has anyone got any pointers? I'm new to Platform Builder.
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> Neil
> >>
> >> --
> >> Remove "online" to reply directly.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>


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