Date   : Sat, 16 Jul 2011 12:28:06 +0200
From   : kortink@... (John Kortink)
Subject: GoMMC as a harddisc?

On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 07:50:09 +0100, Rob <robert@...> wrote:

>I'm sure John will chip in if he sees this :-)
>
>On 16 July 2011 05:21, Rick Murray <rick@...> wrote:
>>
>> But what I'd be interested in knowing, is if it is possible to use the
>> device like a harddisc, for example:
>
>Yes.  TheGoMMC supports multiple filing systems, ADFS among them.  The
>disc images you load up can be hard disc images of pretty much any
>arbitrary size - couple of 100MB "hard drives" will still leave you
>plenty of space to play with!  This is how I use mine.
>
>As for SD / MMC - I gather SD are pretty much backward compatible, so
>if you can fashion up an adapter, you might be able to get one
>working.

Or maybe wait for something like this, perhaps ... ?

http://web.inter.nl.net/users/J.Kortink/home/hardware/gosdc/what.htm

>Usual caveats apply, and given GoMMCs history of not being
>very tolerant of some brands of MMC, you might still have trouble,
>although I think John sorted this out in the later versions.

Um ... I'll take that one for two points ... Actually there
is only a history of people repeating that there's a history
of incompatibility. I suppose that is not totally unrelated
to the fact that there are a lot of GoMMCs around.

In actual fact, out of roughly 40 different cards (of which
I actually have around 30) there have been two problem cases.
One of which was solved (IIRC it reponded extremely slowly
to its initialisation, which was easily solved), and the
other (one I stumbled upon myself) has demonstrably faulty
firmware.

There have been several cases in which people suspected an
incompatible MMC, but which turned out to be false when I
tried it or bought one myself.

So it simply appears that some people, when they can't operate
their GoMMCs succesfully within two minutes (oftentimes, at
their own confession, without reading any documentation),
prefer to blame it on the MMC first ... ;-)

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John Kortink

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