You want to get a copy of Dynamic C 10.56 and take a look at sflash.lib. On lines 136 to 152, there's a series of defines that can be adapted to work on the RCM5600W so you can write directly to serial flash pages using the API you probably used on the RCM3700.

In your program, before you #use "sflash.lib", you'll want to duplicate the serial config shown for Serial Port B with chip select on PD6, and define the SF_PROTECT_LOW and SF_PROTECT_HIGH macros appropriately (protect the firmware with _LOW and protect the UserBlock with _HIGH). I'd copy the existing _HIGH definition, and set _LOW to 300K (to give yourself a little room).

-Tom

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> Hello,
> I'm trying to make a porting of my own file system from the rcm3700 board to rcm5600w board.
> The rcm5600w has 1Mb serial flash and my firmware is about 200Kb long.
> I planned the minimum size of my own file system should not be less 250 Kbytes.
> I'm looking for a way to read from and write into the serial flash.
> I think the functions "writeUserBlock" & "readUserBlock" are not suitable for my intent for the following reasons:
> 1) the area for the userblocks is limited to few Kbytes.
> 2) the power-fail safe feature of the userblock functions is redundant for my own file system becouse it already has a similar feature.
> I think sbfWriteFlash function should be right for my purpose becouse it has not limits in the total amount of byte that an user can write in flash (at my own risk, I know it),but it don't work.
> So I ask if you could show me an example code for sbfWriteFlash and sbfRead, or if you have a better way to suggest me.
> thank you in advance for your consideration
>

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Hello Marco!

I have the same error and I have not managed to fix it. You've been already?

Thank you very much, I hope your answer

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> Hi all,
> has anyone idea how to avoid the compiler error message: "Global
> symbol table overflow, increase table size"?
> Obviously I have increased the table size in DCW.CFG but this error
> still persists..
> Many thanks,
> Marco
>

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Hello! I'm working with R3000, and in my program I need to define 386 parameters. But when I build a 2-dimensional array:

unsigned char tableParam[386][4];

When I insert the code for each parameter:

Example: strcpy (tableParam [0], "ITS");
So until the 386 parameters that need.

When compiling I get the following error:

Global symbol table overflow, increase symbol table size

Where can I get the size of the table and increase it?
Thank you very much.
I would appreciate any advice

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Hello!
I have a problem with global Symbol table:

ERROR: Global Symbol table overflow, increase symbol table size.

Tech support told me to 1) reduce the number of variables in my code and 2) look in the root directory of Dynamic C for a file calles DCW.CFG. In the DCW.CFG file there should be a line that reads sys=30000. I was told I could increase this to be sym=32767 but that this is the upper limit due to some other limits within Dynamic C.

I have done everything he says,but still giving me the same error.
Could you give me some solution?
Thank you very much

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My suggestion is that you create 386 4-char arrays instead of one large 2-dimensional array. And then create an array of pointers and fill it with the addresses of each of the 386 arrays.

char tableParam1[4];
char tableParam2[4];
char tableParam3[4];
...
char tableParam386[4];

char *tableParam[386];

tableParam[0] = tableParam1;
tableParam[2] = tableParam2;
...

strcpy(tableParam[0], "ITS");

Steve

--- In rabbit-semi <at> yahoogroups.com, "fierza83" <fierza83 <at> ...> wrote:
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> Hello!
> I have a problem with global Symbol table:
>
> ERROR: Global Symbol table overflow, increase symbol table size.
>
>
> Tech support told me to 1) reduce the number of variables in my code and 2) look in the root directory of Dynamic C for a file calles DCW.CFG. In the DCW.CFG file there should be a line that reads sys=30000. I was told I could increase this to be sym=32767 but that this is the upper limit due to some other limits within Dynamic C.
>
> I have done everything he says,but still giving me the same error.
> Could you give me some solution?
> Thank you very much
>

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I want to run the example program fat_create.c

and it says at the top:

Requires the FAT filesystem module be installed.

how do I do that?

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Thanks,

yea I just figured that out by searching around on the web and getting to:

http://www.rabbit.com/support/downloads/modules/fat.shtml

Its brand new, 10.56 DC with the new BL4s200 and I was a bit confused when I saw that there example package didn't include a FAT disk example.

The board's documentation details a test program sdflash_inspect.c which takes the SD card and has it partitioned raw in 512 byte blocks (I think, the documentation switches between "pages"/"sectors"/and "blocks" I'm not sure yet if these three terms are interchangable or not) as best I can make out. Everything is a bit in pieces.

So I've got two ways to proceed now, 1) the sdflash_inspect.c example with is raw 512 byte blocks, or the 2) fat_create.c example which seems to be at a much higher programming level. Fat.create.c should leave the mini sd card in a state that I should be able to pull the card and read it by a PC, so that is very attractive. I'm just a bit perplexed as to why the fact_create.c example is shown as the test case for the SD reader/writer.

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> Jon L wrote:
> > I want to run the example program fat_create.c
> >
> > and it says at the top:
> >
> > Requires the FAT filesystem module be installed.
> >
> > how do I do that?
> >
> >
>
> What version of DC? After version 9.5x or so, the FAT library is included.
>
>
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