Frequently Asked Questions

WARP Hardware

How do I format CompactFlash cards for use with the SystemACE controller?

The SystemACE controller can only use CompactFlash cards formatted as FAT12 or FAT16 drives. Starting with XP, Windows will only format drives as FAT32 or NTFS. Instead, you can use an open-source command line tool, mkdosfs, to format cards.

1. Download mkdosfs.zip. You can read more about mkdosfs and download the source from the author's ​site.
2. Unzip the program, open a Windows command prompt and change to the mkdosfs directory.
3. Mount your CompactFlash card and look for the drive letter Windows assigns it in My Computer.
4. Run the following command, replacing "X" with the drive letter of your CompactFlash card:

      mkdosfs -v -F 16 X:
   

I'm trying to run an ethernet demo. I get no response when I attempt to ping the board, despite everything else working, generating and downloading properly…

This is most likely due to the clock speed your bus is running at. If you've included the ethernet core in your project and you review the hardware generation log -- you might notice an inconveniently small block of text telling you that the bus must run at a speed greater than 65mHz for ethernet transfers to work.