Does FAL problem exist in WinCE 5.0?????

Hi,
I have developed FMD driver for Windows CE 5.0 and got it linked with FAL to
form a block device.
FMD is devleoped for NAND flash.
Everything is ok except two things

1. I was perfoming partition driver test on NAND flash.The partition driver
tested was mspart.dll..
A particular test case 5103 fails everytime giving the following log.

<TESTCASE ID=5103>
*** vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
*** TEST STARTING
***
*** Test Name: R/W and bounds check disk partition data
*** Test ID: 5103
*** Library Path: \windows\msparttest.dll
*** Command Line: -zorch
*** Random Seed: 15313
*** Thread Count: 1
*** vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
BEGIN TEST: "R/W and bounds check disk partition data", Threads=1,
Seed=15313
Testing disk 0
Opening storage device "DSK1:"...
Opening storage device "DSK1:"...
Opened store 0x27c4435a
Formatting store 0x27c4435a
Getting store info for store 0x27c4435a
Store opened and formatted successfully
Requesting partition "TestPart1" of size 7895 sectors
Created partition "TestPart1" of size 7895 sectors
Requesting partition "TestPart2" of size 7895 sectors
Created partition "TestPart2" of size 7895 sectors
Requesting partition "TestPart3" of size 7894 sectors
Created partition "TestPart3" of size 7894 sectors
Opened partition TestPart1 on store 0x27c4435a as 0x87db123a
Writing known data to partition 0x87db123a
Opened partition TestPart2 on store 0x27c4435a as 0x47db123a
Writing known data to partition 0x47db123a
Opened partition TestPart3 on store 0x27c4435a as 0xa7db123a
Writing known data to partition 0xa7db123a
Opened partition TestPart1 on store 0x27c4435a as 0xa7db128a
Writing known data to partition 0xa7db128a
0x87ecb800: FLASHDRV.DLL:CP_StartCompactor() - There aren't any DIRTY
sectors left; the compactor can't be started
0x87ecb800: FLASHDRV.DLL:SM_GetNextFreeSector() - Unable to start compactor
in critical situation!!!
0x87ecb800: FLASHDRV.DLL:SM_GetNextFreeSector() - Unable to reclaim any free
sectors in a critical compaction stage. Media must be full.
0x87ecb800: FLASHDRV.DLL:WriteToMedia() - Unable to get next free physical
sector address for writing! The media is full...
0x87ecb800: FLASHDRV.DLL:WriteToMedia() failed.
FAIL in
c:\mlqa\private\test\drivers\partitionmgr\api\msparttest\diskhelp.cpp at
line 540: ReadWritePartition()
FAIL in
c:\mlqa\private\test\drivers\partitionmgr\api\msparttest\diskhelp.cpp at
line 718: WritePartitionData()
FAIL in
c:\mlqa\private\test\drivers\partitionmgr\api\msparttest\testproc.cpp at
line 1334: WriteAndVerifyPartition()
END TEST: "R/W and bounds check disk partition data", FAILED,
Time=202.945
*** ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
*** TEST COMPLETED
***
*** Test Name: R/W and bounds check disk partition data
*** Test ID: 5103
*** Library Path: \windows\msparttest.dll
*** Command Line: -zorch
*** Result: Failed
*** Random Seed: 15313
*** Thread Count: 1
*** Execution Time: 0:03:22.945
*** ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Also, all other flash related CETK test cases are passing.
2. After a lot of operations like copy/move/delete etc on NAND flash , I can
see the following
debug output from the FLASHDRV. A lot of messages like these:


0x87ecb800: FLASHDRV.DLL:CP_StartCompactor() - There aren't any DIRTY
sectors left; the compactor can't be started
0x87ecb800: FLASHDRV.DLL:SM_GetNextFreeSector() - Unable to start compactor
in critical situation!!!
0x87ecb800: FLASHDRV.DLL:SM_GetNextFreeSector() - Unable to reclaim any free
sectors in a critical compaction stage. Media must be full.
0x87ecb800: FLASHDRV.DLL:WriteToMedia() - Unable to get next free physical
sector address for writing! The media is full...
0x87ecb800: FLASHDRV.DLL:WriteToMedia() failed.

Then I can't perform any file operation on this partition until the next
"format" operation.



Any suggestions on this would be very helpful





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