SD Card Error Writing

Programming Support VEXcode V5 Tech Support
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I was looking up how to read and write to the SD card on the V5 brain, I found @jpearman’s code SD Card Help - #3 by jpearman
however, it continually told me that it had an “Error writing to the SD card”, this in this code, seems to mean it did not successfully write to it. I tried formatting it to fat32, however this did not work.

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Unofficial Response
Hello @PokePanda ,
Please make sure you select the correct category. I believe potentially VEX V5 Technical Support or VEXcode V5 Tech Support would be a better tag as your question is not related to #programming-support:vexcode-vr-support .

Anyways, I feel as though the likelihood would be a coding error. If possible, could you provide your code?

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Here is my code:

/*----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
/*                                                                            */
/*    Module:       main.cpp                                                  */
/*    Author:       {author}                                                  */
/*    Created:      {date}                                                    */
/*    Description:  V5 project                                                */
/*                                                                            */
/*----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

// Include the V5 Library
#include "vex.h"
using namespace vex;

vex::brain::sdcard;
// storage for some information to save
uint8_t     myTestData[ 100 ];
uint8_t     myReadBuffer[ 1000 ];

int main() {
    // set the test data to something detectable
    for(int i=0;i<100;i++) {
        myTestData[i] = i * 2;
    }
    
    // write test data to SD Card
    int nWritten = Brain.SDcard.savefile( "test.h", myTestData, sizeof(myTestData) );

    // did that work ?
    if( nWritten > 0) {
        // display on screen how many bytes we wrote
        Brain.Screen.setCursor( 2, 2 );
        Brain.Screen.print( "We wrote %d bytes to the SD Card", nWritten );

        // now read it back into a different buffer
        int nRead = Brain.SDcard.loadfile( "test.h", myReadBuffer, sizeof(myReadBuffer) );

        // display on screen how many bytes we read
        Brain.Screen.setCursor( 3, 2 );
        Brain.Screen.print( "We read %d bytes from the SD Card", nRead );

        // and display some of the data
        Brain.Screen.setCursor( 6, 2 );
        for(int i=0;i<8;i++)
            Brain.Screen.print("%02X ", myReadBuffer[i]);
    }
    else {
        Brain.Screen.printAt( 10, 40, "Error writing to the SD Card" );        
    }
}
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Code is fine (although you don’t need the line vex::brain::sdcard; )
so either bad SD card (or formatting, write protect issue etc.) or hardware fault with the V5.
What make and size is the SD Card ?

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Ya sorry the sd card line was trying to fix it, it is a 64 gigabyte, PNY Elite - X

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Try replacing int nWritten = Brain.SDcard.savefile( "test.h", myTestData, sizeof(myTestData) ); with int nWritten = Brain.SDcard.savefile( "test.h", (uint8_t*)"test", strlen("test") ); and see if that works. That way you can tell for sure if it’s the SD card.

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Unofficial Response

I believe this quote from April, 2019 may be relevant:

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I’ve used 128GB and its worked fine.

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I believe it might not have formatted correctly so I am going to try again to get it to fat32.

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I said the same thing in the thread I quoted. @jpearman said that some SD cards just don’t want to work with the V5 brain. But he didn’t say that SD cards above 16 GB will not work.

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Thanks again, it turned out that the formatting was wrong, thanks again @jpearman for the SD card code, works great.

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Anything above 32GB will usually format automatically to EXFAT or NTFS.

My goto utility for formatting any drive / card as FAT32 (windows only).

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