On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Mitch Bradley w...@laptop.org wrote:
You can get the erase block size from SD cards - it's in the Card
Specific Data structure - but I don't know of any standard way to get it
for USB mass storage devices.
Interesting! Did a bit of looking around but can't
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 02:46:17AM +0100, Martin Dengler wrote:
Nope (SoaS) - that'll waste your partition table in favour of whatever
I copied from my dsd-inspired make-fake-device partition table
script[1]. I'd love patches.
From that script:
NUM_HEADS=16
NUM_SECTORS_PER_TRACK=62
That
You can get the erase block size from SD cards - it's in the Card
Specific Data structure - but I don't know of any standard way to get it
for USB mass storage devices.
Sascha Silbe wrote:
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 02:46:17AM +0100, Martin Dengler wrote:
Nope (SoaS) - that'll waste your
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 3:10 AM, Mitch Bradley w...@laptop.org wrote:
b) If you must construct a fixed partition layout for use on multiple
different devices, align each partition on at least a 4MiB boundary.
That means that you waste 4M for the partition map (one 512-byte
sector padded out to
OCZ Rally 2 4GB has worked fine for me for a year now. If you go for
the OCZ Rally 2 Turbo, it has higher random write speeds(faster boot,
opening apps) but I'm not sure about reliabilty. OCZ has a good
reputation for good reliability on most of it's products.
Using an USB-SD adapter with one of
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 04:23:17PM -0700, S Page wrote:
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 3:10 AM, Mitch Bradley w...@laptop.org wrote:
b) If you must construct a fixed partition layout for use on multiple
different devices, align each partition on at least a 4MiB boundary.
That means that you waste
