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Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl said:
>  No, I am afraid this thing doesn't let me talk to raw flash, or if it
> does, I have not yet discovered how. 

Ok... so when you issue write commands, you're pretending it's a normal 
SCSI hard drive and issuing requests with the _logical_ block numbers? You 
don't have to grok the SmartMedia format and issue _physical_ addresses on 
the flash, handle ECC, the block chains, etc.?

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dwmw2


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