Using SDFat Directly to Access Partitioned SD Cards

mjs513

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While playing around with another project realized that I pretty much forgot how to use the Teensy SDFat that comes with Teensyduino to access the partitions on a SD card. Pretty always use MTP responder when I wanted to do stuff like that or just use a single partitioned drive. So spent the last couple of days remembering and putting together a sketch that would jog my memory.

Below is a sample run from the sketch:
First that appears is the menu
Code:
Menu Options:
    I - Initialize Drive
    1 - List Partitions (Step 1)
    2# - Select Drive # for Logging (Step 2)
    l - List files on selected partition
    L - List files on all partitions
    s - Start Logging data (Restarting logger will append records to existing log)
    x - Stop Logging data
    d - Dump Log
    r - Reset

    'S, or t': Make 2MB file , or remove all 2MB files    h - Menu
Note: didn't implement r, S, t yet.....

First thing you do is select 'I' to initialize the SD Card:
Code:
Card size: 63.86 GB (GB = 1E9 bytes)
Card size: 59.48 GiB (GiB = 2^30 bytes)

Card type: SDXC
cardSize: 63864.57 MB (MB = 1,000,000 bytes)
flashEraseSize: 128 blocks
eraseSingleBlock: true

Next think is you have to select '1' to populate and display the partition table so you can tell the sketch what partition you want to use.
Code:
SD Partition Table
     part, boot, bgnCHS[3], type, endCHS[3], start, length
(2)FAT32:    1,0,0x21,0x22,0x0,0xB,0xFE,0xFF,0xFF,2112,62377984
(3)exFAT:    2,0,0xFE,0xFF,0xFF,0x7,0xFE,0xFF,0xFF,62382144,62351424
pt_#0:    3,0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0,0
pt_#0:    4,0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0,0

Next up is to tell it what partition you want to use, in the case of the exFat partition I would say '22', first 2 is the option, second 2 is the partition number.
Code:
Storage Index 2 Selected of 2[/CODE\
this confirms that you are using the second partition of the 2 partitions available.

If you select 's' you can start the datalogger and 'x' will stop logging data.
[CODE]Logging Data!!!
File opened!!!
13,15,11
13,7,10
13,7,10
13,7,10
8,14,10
.... etc

'd' will dump the data and 'l' will list the directory:
Code:
Listing files on storage Index: 2
 Space Used = 20447232
Filesystem Size = 31918686208

2023-08-30 09:38         4004 kv5.txt
2023-09-11 07:03      1032322 1-Ground_SAI2016.pdf
2023-12-03 12:22        32768 New folder/
  2023-05-10 08:24      4810864 47690335362_a9b23dc6c8_o.jpeg
  2097-12-31 23:00         6492 bno055.py
  2097-12-31 23:00         8277 bno055_base.py
  2097-12-31 23:00         1602 bno055_test.py
  2021-01-01 10:25         4879 D435 Obs-slam Links.txt
  2020-02-19 20:17        42388 ER-TFTM050-3.png
  2021-04-01 18:13        11286 FlashChipWiring.PNG
  2019-01-01 00:02      4810968 jwst-sideview.jpg
  2023-04-07 17:00         2036 LITF.txt
  2023-04-27 19:20       335766 magn.txt
  2020-01-01 11:06       306892 MPU-9250-Accel-Gyro-and-Mag-Module-Connections.jpg
  2019-01-01 00:13      8393728 SDTEST1.raw
2023-01-01 00:00          245 datalog.txt

'L' would list the directories all partitions including the partition name.

Cheers.
 

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Great stuff.

As you mentioned, before we were always doing it using MTP and the like!
 
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