- Sat Feb 12, 2011 6:46 pm
#120119
I'm trying to learn as I go, but I cannot get the microSD shield and my Uno to do anything.
At first I got a bad microSD card from Sparkfun that would not be recognized by my PC. Now I have a new 2G card that I can see it working on my PC but not in the shield. I assume a lot of the comments on the product page and the forum from January 2010 have been addressed in this new one I just purchased. Simply put, after downloading the sdFat library through Sparkfun, and loading in the test example (http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorial/microS ... xample.pde), and then running it, I get nothing on the serial monitor. Inserting the card into my PC shows no files added. If I add a Serial.println(" Test ") to the code under the Serial.print(in_char); statement, I get the text "Test" every second, but nothing else.
Any ideas??
Should I be able to run that example without doing any formatting of the card first? It was formatted in FAT, I reformatted in FAT32 with no change. It may be a simple problem that I don't have the experience to see, but it looks to me like the board is bad. I see a lot of other issues with this shield in the forum so maybe they are correctable problems??
I'd appreciate some better expertise.
Thanks for your time!
Doug
At first I got a bad microSD card from Sparkfun that would not be recognized by my PC. Now I have a new 2G card that I can see it working on my PC but not in the shield. I assume a lot of the comments on the product page and the forum from January 2010 have been addressed in this new one I just purchased. Simply put, after downloading the sdFat library through Sparkfun, and loading in the test example (http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorial/microS ... xample.pde), and then running it, I get nothing on the serial monitor. Inserting the card into my PC shows no files added. If I add a Serial.println(" Test ") to the code under the Serial.print(in_char); statement, I get the text "Test" every second, but nothing else.
Any ideas??
Should I be able to run that example without doing any formatting of the card first? It was formatted in FAT, I reformatted in FAT32 with no change. It may be a simple problem that I don't have the experience to see, but it looks to me like the board is bad. I see a lot of other issues with this shield in the forum so maybe they are correctable problems??
I'd appreciate some better expertise.
Thanks for your time!
Doug