13 Oct
2010
13 Oct
'10
8:16 a.m.
On Wednesday 13 October 2010 09:53:17 Dave Martin wrote:
Could be... although the Beagle ROM seems to be very sensitive to the precise layout. We might find that the partition must start at sector 63 (but I'm not sure I understand the behaviour yet).
That would be a serious bug in the firmware, probably serious enough that we could require updating.
It's not the end of the world if the vfat partition is misaligned, since this isn't accessed much, and written only occasionally. If we can have the rootfs partition aligned, that probably brings most of the benefit.
You can also manually align the FAT and the start of data to individual sectors, which is how some SD cards do it when they use the 255/63 geometry.
Arnd