Wi-Fire SD_ReadWrite

[James783]

Hi,

I’m new to working with the chipKit Wi-fire board and wish to experiment with the SD_ReadWrite example. I have installed Arduino 1.8.9 on a Windows 10 machine and followed through instructions on setup.

Referring to the chipKit Wi-Fire Board reference manual, I note the SD card CS is on pin 8 (pin 52). I have set chipSelect_SD_default = 52; Each time I run the program on the chipKit Wi-Fire board the SD card does not initialize ("initialization failed!"). The SD card is a SanDisk 64GB.

Please could you advise if there are any instructions available on how to setup this example on the chipKit Wi-Fire rev.c board? I note there have been previous issues with the SD card on the Wi-Fire and wish to confirm if this example does work on the Wi-Fire board?

Regards,

James

[JColvin]

Hi @James783,

What formatting does your 64GB SD card use? From my understanding the SD library (which is provided by the Arduino IDE) only supports the FAT16 and FAT32 formats, which if I recall correctly isn't the format used on most 64GB cards.

Thanks,
JColvin

 

[James783]

Dear JColvin,

Thank you for your prompt response.

As per your suggestion, the SanDisk 64GB micro SD card is in fact exFAT format. I have a SanDisk 32GB micro SD card available today and note that is FAT32 compatible.

I can confirm that the SD_ReadWrite example is fully working on the ChipKit Wi-Fire using the 32GB FAT32 compatible micro SD card.

For the reference, I used a micro SD to SD adaptor to open the micro SD card on my home PC. Open file explorer -> right-click micro SD -> ‘Format’. In the format menu, the list of compatible formats can be viewed under the ‘file system’ drop down menu.

Thanks again, kind regards,

James

[jpeyron]

Hi @James783,

Welcome to the Digilent Forums!

Glad to hear that changing the SD Card that is formatted to FAT32 fixed the issue. Thank you for sharing what you did and found.

best regards,

Jon