On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, Dennis McCunney wrote:
On the Palm Lifedrive, Palm implemented FAT32 file system support to handle
the 4GB internal hard drive the Lifedrive uses. A programmer figured out
how to patch the FAT32.PRC driver to get it to run on other devices, and
instruction were available on another board for getting it installed on the
Zodiac in place of the built-in FATFS driver. Among other incentives, the
FAT32 driver has better performance reading FAT16 cards.
I think someone should write a VFS caching hack.
I installed it, and verified the performance gains with VFSMark. Everything
worked fine, *except* Plucker.
I assume Plucker works fine on a real LifeDrive.
My guess is that there is a volume label problem--what you said about the
drive label changing is relevant (I don't think VOLUME.NAM is really the
volume name--FAT16 at least used to have a special directory entry for the
volume name). Plucker used to have trouble with devices that had two
volumes with the same label or even one with an empty label. Maybe some
vestige of the problem remains. I thought I had fixed this issue, but
maybe not.
In any case, I can't really test this myself with the FAT32 driver,
because I don't want to violate Palm's copyright by pirating their FAT32
driver.
Alex
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