Hi Tim,

On 12/22/21, Tim <t...@jti.uk.com.invalid> wrote:
>>Here the issue is your ramdisk size. You need at least 64 sectors to be
>> able to
>>format as FAT, try it:
>>https://acassis.wordpress.com/2020/08/23/how-to-use-ramdisk-as-filesystem-
>>on-nuttx/
>
> That is the guide I followed Alan:
>
> nsh>mkrd 64
> nsh>ls /dev
> /dev:
>  console
>  null
>  ram0
>  ttyFC0
>  ttyFC1
>  ttyS0
>  ttyS1
>  zero
> nsh>mkfatfs /dev/ram0
> mkfatfs_tryfat16: WARNING:  Too few or too many clusters for FAT16: 4081 <
> 29 < 254
> mkfatfs_clustersearch: WARNING:  Cannot format FAT16 at 1 sectors/cluster
> nsh>
>
> Other variants of nsectors, that I've tried, give variations of the same
> error. This is why I still thingh there is a buried CONFIG setting I haven't
> enabled or have set wrong inadvertently.
>

The error message comes from here:

apps/fsutils/mkfatfs/configfat.c

Enable the DEBUG FS WARNING to see more details.

> Most rocket ships have well written training manuals...this whole adventure
> is "let's have a guess what might work".
>

Yes, our is here: https://nuttx.apache.org/docs/latest/ and if you
want to help the project you can create about how to use Flash with
USB MSD after you get things fixed, deal? ;-)

BR,

Alan

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