How can I tell if the SD card is working or not.

MovieMaker

After I wire everything up. How exactly can I tell if the SD card is working or not?

Thanks,
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parsko

If you're using the SD routnine from obex... When you start the cog/SD driver, it will go through an initialization routine with the SD card. This will return a value to you. Certain values indicate certain things. I believe the SD routine will return -1 with a successful startup. I believe it will return 13 with a failed startup. So, the code would look something like this:

text.dec(cognew(sdroutine, pin))

That's a bit of pseudocode, enough to note that you would want to print the return from the start sequence. Try that, and let us know what you get.

-Parsko

parsko

EDIT: In the SD routine from OBEX, you should run the sdrw_test.spin routine. This will confirm hardware. I was wrong, positive values are good, negative values are bad. Read tom's comments at the top of fsrw.spin. If this fails, then you have a hardware issue. It's a pretty bulletproof test.

-Parsko

Oldbitcollector (Jeff)

@Moviemaker

Did you get your SD working yet? What pins are you using to connect it?

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MovieMaker

1st I had it done with the pins that sparkfun listed. Then I changed it to the pins that boebotbasic listed.

they were shown in a previous post in the questions to mike.

parsko

And it still won't work?

Oldbitcollector (Jeff)

Can you be more specific about the exact connection?
I'd like to assemble a FemtoBASIC test for you.

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Dgswaner

you could try the WAV player object, it will read a wav file from an SD card. it's really straight forward to use.... if you have a audio connection.

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DGSwaner

MovieMaker

I finally got it working today, actually.· It was working all along, but I could not think of a way to test it. Finally, in BOEBOT basic, I did a "FILES" statement. This listed all of the files on the SD. It worked fine.