[Tinyos-help] BlockStorage/flash EEPROM

[David Gay]

On 7/7/06, Otmar Caduff <caduffo at student.ethz.ch> wrote:
> Hi
>
> In order to access the flash EEPROM (Atmel 45DB), I'm thinking about
> using the BlockStorage abstraction. However, there are no comments in
> the code telling how to use this component. (Maybe it's so trivial and
> I'm not capable enough...) So here come my questions:
>
> - What does BlockWrite.erase() effects? Will it erase the actual
> partition? Or some buffer? Or the whole EEPROM?
> - What if I want to write to a position in the EEPROM I already wrote to
> before? Is this handled by the BlockStorage abstraction or is this not
> possible (i.e. I would have to erase something...)
>
> TEP103 in tinyos-1.x/beta/teps mentions a logger service; is it already
> implemented or if not, will it be implemented in the next future?

Read the updated version of tep103, and the BlockRead and BlockWrite
interfaces in beta2, which should be coming out very soon.

David Gay