Problem with Flash Media Driver

Hai All,
I am working on a ARM based device with WinCE5.0
My board contains 32 MB onboard strata flash and 64MB SDRAM.
My problem is a strange one, I hope so.
I build Strata Flash Drivar sample available in PB.

I am Succefully loaded my FMDriver and able to create a partition and
format,read and write into it.
This all happens, When I write the image into SDRAM.

If I check the "write image to Flash" from PB build options
I could able to load the driver, but Neither I can create partition nor
format the flash.

I can see the Flash media Object in storage manager application tool.
If I try to format it, The device hangs. No further response.

can anybody help in this regard?
thanks in advance

with regards
Vijji

Dean
Thu May 26 08:44:20 CDT 2005

That mode is not supported by the Microsoft flash driver. Since you can't
execute from the same flash while you are writing to it (flash architecture
issue), you must have specialized software to work around this problem. MS
flash software doesn't, Intel IPSM does.

If you use the MS flash driver, you must be running from RAM.

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<vijayaraju.k@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1117113232.037002.244370@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Hai All,
> I am working on a ARM based device with WinCE5.0
> My board contains 32 MB onboard strata flash and 64MB SDRAM.
> My problem is a strange one, I hope so.
> I build Strata Flash Drivar sample available in PB.
>
> I am Succefully loaded my FMDriver and able to create a partition and
> format,read and write into it.
> This all happens, When I write the image into SDRAM.
>
> If I check the "write image to Flash" from PB build options
> I could able to load the driver, but Neither I can create partition nor
> format the flash.
>
> I can see the Flash media Object in storage manager application tool.
> If I try to format it, The device hangs. No further response.
>
> can anybody help in this regard?
> thanks in advance
>
> with regards
> Vijji
>

vijayaraju
Thu May 26 10:04:35 CDT 2005

Hai Dean,
Thanks for your immediate reply.
Is there any alternate solution to my problem.
Since I am a individual developer working for some client, I can't go
for IPSM,
Can you suggest me some other way to solve my problem?
All this I am doing is for storing Hive Registry in my flash.
It will be great help If you suggest me something other than IPSM.

thanks in advance




with regards
Vijji

Paul
Thu May 26 12:29:57 CDT 2005

I'm unclear on why IPSM would not be a possibility or what's wrong with
loading the OS from Flash into RAM and executing it from there. If those
won't work, you'll either have to implement the same sort of scheme that
IPSM is using yourself (which is a *big* job), use IPSM (which works very
well and should be running in a week or so, if not less), or forget about
running from Flash.

Paul T.

<vijayaraju.k@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1117119875.086183.16940@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Hai Dean,
> Thanks for your immediate reply.
> Is there any alternate solution to my problem.
> Since I am a individual developer working for some client, I can't go
> for IPSM,
> Can you suggest me some other way to solve my problem?
> All this I am doing is for storing Hive Registry in my flash.
> It will be great help If you suggest me something other than IPSM.
>
> thanks in advance
>
>
>
>
> with regards
> Vijji
>

vijayaraju
Thu May 26 23:51:20 CDT 2005

Hai Paul,
Thank you for your reply.
I have Two doubts as follows:

1) Is it possible for me to shadow/copy the entire image to RAM after
flashing it into onboard flash and Can I store my registry on my flash
NOw since my image will be running from RAM?

2)Are you sure that IPSM will work for My device( ARM920T CPU) with 32
MB onboard Intel StrataFlash(TE28F128/J3) ans 64MB SDRAM? If it
works..............
How much IPSM latest version will Cost for me? HOw do I purchase it?

Could anybody suggest me if both are possible.
thanks in advance



with Regards
Vijji

Yannick
Fri May 27 02:03:36 CDT 2005

1/ Yes to both : you can adapt eboot so that it would get image from flash
instead of ethernet and copy it to RAM. Concerning registry, if you
implement hive based registry, you would have your registry persistent

2/ For this questions on IPSM, you should contact your local Intel
representative

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<vijayaraju.k@gmail.com> a écrit dans le message de news:
1117169480.596582.261920@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
> Hai Paul,
> Thank you for your reply.
> I have Two doubts as follows:
>
> 1) Is it possible for me to shadow/copy the entire image to RAM after
> flashing it into onboard flash and Can I store my registry on my flash
> NOw since my image will be running from RAM?
>
> 2)Are you sure that IPSM will work for My device( ARM920T CPU) with 32
> MB onboard Intel StrataFlash(TE28F128/J3) ans 64MB SDRAM? If it
> works..............
> How much IPSM latest version will Cost for me? HOw do I purchase it?
>
> Could anybody suggest me if both are possible.
> thanks in advance
>
>
>
> with Regards
> Vijji
>

Paul
Fri May 27 11:03:45 CDT 2005

2) Yes, it will work. I don't know what the cost will be, exactly, but it's
very minimal. As Yannick says, contact Intel.

Paul T.

<vijayaraju.k@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1117169480.596582.261920@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
> Hai Paul,
> Thank you for your reply.
> I have Two doubts as follows:
>
> 1) Is it possible for me to shadow/copy the entire image to RAM after
> flashing it into onboard flash and Can I store my registry on my flash
> NOw since my image will be running from RAM?
>
> 2)Are you sure that IPSM will work for My device( ARM920T CPU) with 32
> MB onboard Intel StrataFlash(TE28F128/J3) ans 64MB SDRAM? If it
> works..............
> How much IPSM latest version will Cost for me? HOw do I purchase it?
>
> Could anybody suggest me if both are possible.
> thanks in advance
>
>
>
> with Regards
> Vijji
>