Question - Minimig SD card

[wolfchild]

Gavilan wrote:

Erm...maybe you meant www.minimig.net

Yes, yes that's it ;-)  

My mistake there.  The pre-order thread is here:

The ARM Board Preorder

[Piru]

It's not hardcoded, the number of root directory entries is read from the boot sector. Should work with any valid number. The default value for FAT16 volumes is 512 and most common formatting utilities do not allow to change it.

But linux format tools specifically allow this, so why not give it a try?

Since most users are indeed limited by the actual number of the directory entries it would seem wise to try it. Say with 2GB SD mkfs.vfat ... -r 2400 ... this should allow use of the whole disk capacity for ADFs.

[freqmax]

"is there anything possible which can be done in the future to resolve this issue?"

Ethernet ..


One possibility with the boot MCU (PIC18xx) with limited memory is to load code for supporting subdirectories etc.. form the disc itself. Kind of like Compaq BIOS.
The only thing that the MCU must execute is configuration of the FPGA and KS+WB load. The rest could possible be arranged in other ways.

I hope it's possible to load code into the MCU ram and execute.

[mikej]

The new ARM software for the Replay board I am working on with   Jakub has new filesystem code. This supports folders, long filenames and FAT32.

best,
/Mike

[tasmanian guy]

My minimig has a 4 gigabyte card in it with a 1.5 gigabyte hdf file.
 
What is the maximum size hdf file that you can have on the Minimig, 2 gigabytes I assume with fat16?