Hi Jonas,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 6:21 AM, Jonas Smedegaard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dr@jones.dk">dr@jones.dk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 07:36:05AM -0400, Luke Faraone wrote:<br>
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On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 07:25, Jonas Smedegaard <<a href="mailto:dr@jones.dk" target="_blank">dr@jones.dk</a>> wrote:<br>
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makebootfat not only formats with disk geometry that *is* right, but also use a handcrafted MBR which has a higher chance of *looking* right by various BIOSes - both when looking for USB-FDD, USB-ZIP and USB-HDD.<br>
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Now, by *right*, do we mean not only that but also something that meets the<br>
criteria of<br>
<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/How_to_Damage_a_FLASH_Storage_Device#How_to_win%28without" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/How_to_Damage_a_FLASH_Storage_Device#How_to_win(without</a><br>
the problems caused by<br>
<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/How_to_Damage_a_FLASH_Storage_Device#Screwed-up_formatting" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/How_to_Damage_a_FLASH_Storage_Device#Screwed-up_formatting</a><br>
)?<br>
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I'm not too familiar with how USB flash works, so I don't know if USB-{FDD,<br>
ZIP, HDD} layouts are compatible with the layout you'd want to minimize<br>
wear.<br>
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Please read the following: <a href="http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/doc-makebootfat.html#7" target="_blank">http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/doc-makebootfat.html#7</a><br>
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If you, after reading above, still feel that your questions are relevant (hint: I don't), then please elaborate on them.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Well, to begin with, neither the makebootfat documentation nor the source code seem<br>to make any mention of aligning disk and filesystem data structures consistent with the erase block<br>size for the flash on a particular USB disk.<br>
<br>Now, perhaps this is _usually_ an implicit result of the FAT cluster sizes, the geometry chosen, and<br>makefatboot's default layout, but it is certainly not explicit.<br><br>- Dan<br></div></div>