Hi Guys,
I am stuck trying to use an SD card breakout board from Sparkfun.
Sparkfun uSD Breakout (Level Shifter)
This SD card uses SPI and a chip select on Digital Pin 8, as well as a card detect on Digital Pin 9. Confirmed my wiring is correct and the chip is getting 4.7 V. Below is my sketch I am using to setup / test the card.
The problem occurs when attempting to initialize the card. It fails repetitively, then suddenly works. Sometimes it never initializes.
On a side note I did try two of these breakout boards on my Yun and Uno. Both had the same results.
My SD card is formatted as FAT32 and is 8GB. The card is a Kingston (brand new) and uses an unit allocation size of 4096 bytes.
Here is my sketch:
/*
* A simple file logger that allows the user to write to a file on the µSD card
* using the Arduino IDE Serial Monitor (57600 baud). Entered text is written
* to the µSD card every 20 characters, but to make sure everything is written
* append 'EOF' to your writing. Doing so writes everything remaining in the
* buffer to the file and reads back the contents of the file.
*/
#include <SPI.h>
#include <SD.h>
File fd;
const uint8_t BUFFER_SIZE = 20;
char fileName[] = "demoFile.txt"; // SD library only supports up to 8.3 names
char buff[BUFFER_SIZE+2] = ""; // Added two to allow a 2 char peek for EOF state
uint8_t index = 0;
const uint8_t chipSelect = 8;
const uint8_t cardDetect = 9;
enum states: uint8_t { NORMAL, E, EO };
uint8_t state = NORMAL;
bool alreadyBegan = false; // SD.begin() misbehaves if not first call
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Standard Arduino setup function
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
void setup()
{
Serial.begin(57600);
// pinMode(10, OUTPUT); // change this to 53 on a mega // don't follow this!!
// digitalWrite(10, HIGH); // Add this line
while (!Serial); // Wait for serial port to connect (ATmega32U4 type PCBAs)
// Note: To satisfy the AVR SPI gods the SD library takes care of setting
// SS_PIN as an output. We don't need to.
pinMode(cardDetect, INPUT);
initializeCard();
}
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Arduino calls this function over and over again when running
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
void loop()
{
// Make sure the card is still present
if (!digitalRead(cardDetect))
{
initializeCard();
}
if (Serial.available() > 0)
{
readByte();
if (index == BUFFER_SIZE)
{
flushBuffer(); // Write full buffer to µSD card
}
}
}
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Do everything from detecting card through opening the demo file
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
void initializeCard(void)
{
Serial.print(F("Initializing SD card..."));
// Is there even a card?
if (!digitalRead(cardDetect))
{
Serial.println(F("No card detected. Waiting for card."));
while (!digitalRead(cardDetect));
delay(250); // 'Debounce insertion'
}
// Card seems to exist. begin() returns failure
// even if it worked if it's not the first call.
if (!SD.begin(chipSelect) && !alreadyBegan) // begin uses half-speed...
{
Serial.println(F("Initialization failed!"));
initializeCard(); // Possible infinite retry loop is as valid as anything
}
else
{
alreadyBegan = true;
}
Serial.println(F("Initialization done."));
Serial.print(fileName);
if (SD.exists(fileName))
{
Serial.println(F(" exists."));
}
else
{
Serial.println(F(" doesn't exist. Creating."));
}
Serial.print("Opening file: ");
Serial.println(fileName);
Serial.println(F("Enter text to be written to file. 'EOF' will terminate writing."));
}
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// This function is called after the EOF command is received. It writes the
// remaining unwritten data to the µSD card, and prints out the full contents
// of the log file.
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
void eof(void)
{
index -= 3; // Remove EOF from the end
flushBuffer();
// Re-open the file for reading:
fd = SD.open(fileName);
if (fd)
{
Serial.println("");
Serial.print(fileName);
Serial.println(":");
while (fd.available())
{
Serial.write(fd.read());
}
}
else
{
Serial.print("Error opening ");
Serial.println(fileName);
}
fd.close();
}
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Write the buffer to the log file. If we are possibly in the EOF state, verify
// that to make sure the command isn't written to the file.
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
void flushBuffer(void)
{
fd = SD.open(fileName, FILE_WRITE);
if (fd) {
switch (state) // If a flush occurs in the 'E' or the 'EO' state, read more to detect EOF
{
case NORMAL:
break;
case E:
readByte();
readByte();
break;
case EO:
readByte();
break;
}
fd.write(buff, index);
fd.flush();
index = 0;
fd.close();
}
}
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Reads a byte from the serial connection. This also maintains the state to
// capture the EOF command.
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
void readByte(void)
{
byte byteRead = Serial.read();
Serial.write(byteRead); // Echo
buff[index++] = byteRead;
// Must be 'EOF' to not get confused with words such as 'takeoff' or 'writeoff'
if (byteRead == 'E' && state == NORMAL)
{
state = E;
}
else if (byteRead == 'O' && state == E)
{
state = EO;
}
else if (byteRead == 'F' && state == EO)
{
eof();
state = NORMAL;
}
}
Here is the output from the serial monitor.
Initializing SD card...Initialization failed!
Initializing SD card...Initialization failed!
Initializing SD card...Initialization failed!
Initializing SD card...Initialization failed!
Initializing SD card...Initialization failed!
Initializing SD card...Initialization failed!
Initializing SD card...Initialization failed!
Initializing SD card...Initialization failed!
Initializing SD card...Initialization failed!
Initializing SD card...Initialization failed!
Initializing SD card...Initialization failed!
Initializing SD card...Initialization failed!
Initializing SD card...Initialization failed!
Initializing SD card...Initialization failed!
Initializing SD card...Initialization failed!
Initializing SD card...Initialization failed!
Initializing SD card...Initialization failed!
Initializing SD card...Initialization failed!
Initializing SD card...Initialization failed!
Initializing SD card...Initialization failed!
Initializing SD card...Initialization done.-demoFile.txt doesn't exist. Creating.
Þ>Opening fdemoFile.txt
Þ>Enter text to be written to file. 'EOF' will terminate writing.ÊÞ>Initialization done.ÊÞ>demoFile.txt doesn't exist. Creating.ÊÞ>�ù•¶:?ý”demoFile.txtÊÞ>Enter text to be written to file. 'EOF' will terminate writing.ÊÞ>Initialization done.ÊÞ>demoFile.txt doesn't exist. Creating.ÊÞ>�ù•¶:?ý”demoFile.txtÊÞ>Enter text to be written to file. 'EOF' will terminate writing.ÊÞ>Initialization done.ÊÞ>demoFile.txt doesn't exist. Creating.ÊÞ>�ù•¶:?ý”demoFile.txtÊÞ>Enter text to be written to file. 'EOF' will terminate writing.ÊÞ>Initialization done.ÊÞ>demoFile.txt doesn't exist. Creating.ÊÞ>�ù•¶:?ý”demoFile.txtÊÞ>Enter text to be written to file. 'EOF' will terminate writing.ÊÞ>Initialization done.ÊÞ>demoFile.txt
Hopefully there is someone much smarter than me to understand why this card isn't immediately being read. I am not confident using this in a design with intermittent failures.
-NB