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20 years ago

dev board CF interface speed

doing some speed tests on my altera 1c20 deb board. Ive done the following. mount a CF thats been formatted FAT and has a 1MiB file on it called speed cat speed > /dev/null and time the re...
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20 years ago

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Also, based on the calculations made in your orginal post, I&#39;m assuming that "MiB" = mebibyte = 2^20 = 1024 ^2 = 1,048,576 bytes? Is that correct?[/b]

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Correct. I rounded the result of the calculation. I created the file with: 

dd if=/dev/zero of=speed bs=1M count=1

But any large size file will do. Just see if its fast or slow. Are you using the stock IDE CF interface provided in the example code or a different one?