Re: [Gc-linux-devel] Memory card block device

[David R. <da...@it...>]

On 6 feb 2004, at 17.58, Michael Steil wrote:

> On 06.02.2004, at 16:58, David Remahl wrote:
>> Has any work, or thought, been put into creating a driver for the 
>> GameCube memory cards?
>
> I don't think so.
>
>> I ordered a cheap 64 MB memory card, so that could be a very 
>> convenient source of a reasonable amount of persistent storage.
>
> That's probably 64 Mbits, not MBytes, so your memory card is just 8 MB.
> Mine is just 2 MB :-(

Oh...How disappointing. The web site I ordered from (DVDBoxOffice) 
clearly used the MB unit with a capital B, so I just assumed they meant 
bytes (that's the common thing to do for storage :). And the label on 
the card also sports a clear MB unit. But you're probably right that 
they mean bits...

Yeah, after checking, I find that it is advertised to have 1019 blocks 
(1024, including 5 "filesystem" blocks). With each block 8KB large, 
that's 8MB.

Well, then at least its _some_ persistent storage for the system...I'm 
now even happier that I didn't buy the Nintendo 4 Mb card (59/64 
blocks) that was even more expensive than the 1024 one...Half a meg, 
that isn't much to cheer for.

>> I have no experience of writing neither block device drivers, nor MTD 
>> drivers for Linux, so I'm unsure of what the best route is. If 
>> someone knows better, I'd love to listen and do the work.
>
> There are always lots of people in the IRC, and perhaps even someone 
> who can help you interactively.

Sounds great.

/ Regards, David (damned deceptive advertising! ;-).



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