I have managed to access a Sandisk CompactFlash device using an 8051 micro, and am able to read its identity, and also read and write sectors in this device. Next task is to tackle FAT16...
My question relates to the Identify command (0xEC) with which one can check out the CF device's intrinsic parameters. Does one always have to use this command to electronically determine what the capacity (max number of sectors) of the CF device is? And is this same command also used to interrogate other storage devices' capacity, such as HDD's, diskettes, CDROM's(?)
Thanks Jack