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SECTION 12
FLASH FILE SYSTEM II
With FLASH FILE SYSTEM II, a read/write MS-Flash partition can be created in the
2MB or 4MB Flash EPROM device (located at U36 on solder side). Such a partition can
be accessed via the DOS commands.
Section 11 - VFLASH Software - explained how a read-only Flash partition is created
with VFLASH and how data can be stored in files with the VFLASH Transfer Utility.
The 2MB or 4MB user or data Flash device can be configured in one of four ways:
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As one read-only partition, created by VFLASH created as a bootable or non-bootable
disk. See Section 11 for more information.
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As one read/write MS-Flash partition created by FLASH FILE SYSTEM II.
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As a combination of the above two: one read-only VFLASH partition, followed by one
MS-Flash read/write partition. The system will set up both as a different drive, with
the MS-Flash disk always the last. For example, VIP-UP can set up the VFLASH disk
as C:, other hard disks as D: and E:, while the MS-Flash disk, in this case, would
automatically be set up as the next drive letter, that is F:. Another example could be
only one hard disk, with the following setup: hard disk (C:), VFLASH disk (D:) and
MS-Flash disk (E:).
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The fourth possible configuration is similar to the previous one except that space (one
or more memory block) is left between the VFLASH disk and the MS-Flash disk. This
non-partitioned space can be used by special applications to store data; this can only be
done safely if you know the exact address of these memory blocks.
FLASH FILE SYSTEM II can be purchased from TEKNOR and is not part of the
standard VIPer807 package and utilities.
The following sections explain how to create and format an MS-Flash partition with
MEMCARD.EXE, and how to set up your partition in CONFIG.SYS.
FLASH FILE SYSTEM II
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