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Hi
I am using System ACE module from Insight with Virtex 2 pro board.
Of all the things i am facing a very trivial but more complicated
situation.
In order to make the files stored in flash card readable by system ace
module, it need to be formattted by win 98 not by win 2000 or XP( as
xilinx said formatting done by dos on win 2000 and xp has problems
).Now that, i want some utility that can help me to format by flash
card with an option to change the sector size, since win 98 doesnt
have an option to change the sector size.
I searched for some on the web but couldnt find one, and this raises
me a question of what does insight and xilinx had in mind when they
come up with such a product that can be formatted only by win 98(which
is obselete )and not support customers with any formatting
utility,since i had already spent a lot of time on this issue in
consulting with xilixn hotline and my fae.

Any help on guiding me to find the formatting utility would be
appreciated.
Thanx for your effort and time.
Thank you
Regards
Ram nathan

ram wrote:
> Hi
> I am using System ACE module from Insight with Virtex 2 pro board.
> Of all the things i am facing a very trivial but more complicated
> situation.
> In order to make the files stored in flash card readable by system ace
> module, it need to be formattted by win 98 not by win 2000 or XP( as
> xilinx said formatting done by dos on win 2000 and xp has problems
> ).

> Any help on guiding me to find the formatting utility would be
> appreciated.
> Thanx for your effort and time.
> Thank you
> Regards
> Ram nathan

I've "formatted" CompactFlash disks that satisfy SystemACE
using mkfs.msdos under Linux.
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I've been successful using the format command through
the Windows2000 command prompt:

format D: /FS:FAT /A:1024

This, and other solutions are detailed on the Xilinx
support website. See answer record 14456.