File System for the RC

[Venkatesh]

To talk to CF cards with FAT filesystems, you might be able to use code and designs from Minty MP3 (http://www.ladyada.net/make/minty/). There is code for a PIC18 under the firmware section (fat16.c and cf.c).

[Tristan Lall]

Originally Posted by Venkatesh

To talk to CF cards with FAT filesystems, you might be able to use code and designs from Minty MP3 (http://www.ladyada.net/make/minty/). There is code for a PIC18 under the firmware section (fat16.c and cf.c).

Interestingly enough, CF is pin-compatible with ATA, so you might also be able to use conventional ATA hard drives with that code and hardware. (Not that you'd ever need several gigabytes of code space....)

[sciguy125]

Originally Posted by Tristan Lall

Interestingly enough, CF is pin-compatible with ATA, so you might also be able to use conventional ATA hard drives with that code and hardware. (Not that you'd ever need several gigabytes of code space....)

So I see that you get by with 640K of RAM.

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by Venkatesh

To talk to CF cards with FAT filesystems, you might be able to use code and designs from Minty MP3 (http://www.ladyada.net/make/minty/). There is code for a PIC18 under the firmware section (fat16.c and cf.c).

The page isn't loading correctly for me.

I will assume it works on the same protocol as SD, which is SPI. The SPI portions of the IFI controller's PICs are being used for internal function. If so, that software wont be a direct fit for what you want it to do.

[Venkatesh]

If the page isn't loading correctly, another copy of the same info is here: http://web.media.mit.edu/~ladyada/make/minty/index.html

[chris31]

The link isnt working do to an extra ")" at the end of the link. If you got to http://www.ladyada.net/make/minty/ it works.