Setting up ramdisk with dosfs

[Eugeny S. Mints]

Greetings,

Thomas Doerfler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> AFAIK the ramdisk would work fine with the MSDOS 
> filesystem, but it is not formatted :-(

Exactly. Ramdisk works fine with DOSFS since I used ramdisk during DOSFS 
development:) And again - exactly - a ramdisk needs to be formatted by 
any means out of RTEMS since Thomas msdos_format for RTEMS is the work 
in progress (yet:).
> 
> I am currently developing a msdos_format function 
> which should solve this problem.
> 
> 
>>Hi.
>>
>>I want to use the ramdisk with dosfs but has some problems. 
>>
>>I am running on a sun solaris with target ERC32. Using TSIM as simulator.
>>Want to modify the fileio sample to use ramdisk instead of ata. 
>>
>>My questions are:
>>
>>What should I initialize? (I added RAMDISK_TABLE_ENTRY to the Device table
>>and this seems to work fine.)

In addition to the RAMDISK_TABLE_ENTRY you need to define at least one 
ramdisk itself - rtems_ramdisk_configuration[] array of type 
rtems_ramdisk_config (please, see 
cpukit/libblock/include/rtems/ramdisk.h - there are good comments 
there). The rtems_ramdisk_configuration[] array is expected to be 
exported by a bsp.

It seems one time (about june of 2002) I sent Angelo Fraietta <angelo_f 
at bigpond dot com> the ramdisk application example.

2Angelo: If it possible, please re-post the example on the list.

Regards,
		Eugeny

>>I am trying to run rtems_ide_part_table_initialize(dev) but it returns '25'
>>and 'not a char device' (the ramdisk is accessed). Must I use ide_part?
>>I really could use a step by step instruction how to init and mount a
>>ramdisk and use msdos with it.
>>
>>Any information would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>Regards
>>Daniel Gustavsson
>>
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