I want to run the example program fat_create.c

and it says at the top:

Requires the FAT filesystem module be installed.

how do I do that?

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Jon L wrote:
> I want to run the example program fat_create.c
>
> and it says at the top:
>
> Requires the FAT filesystem module be installed.
>
> how do I do that?
>
>

What version of DC? After version 9.5x or so, the FAT library is included.
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Thanks,

yea I just figured that out by searching around on the web and getting to:

http://www.rabbit.com/support/downloads/modules/fat.shtml

Its brand new, 10.56 DC with the new BL4s200 and I was a bit confused when I saw that there example package didn't include a FAT disk example.

The board's documentation details a test program sdflash_inspect.c which takes the SD card and has it partitioned raw in 512 byte blocks (I think, the documentation switches between "pages"/"sectors"/and "blocks" I'm not sure yet if these three terms are interchangable or not) as best I can make out. Everything is a bit in pieces.

So I've got two ways to proceed now, 1) the sdflash_inspect.c example with is raw 512 byte blocks, or the 2) fat_create.c example which seems to be at a much higher programming level. Fat.create.c should leave the mini sd card in a state that I should be able to pull the card and read it by a PC, so that is very attractive. I'm just a bit perplexed as to why the fact_create.c example is shown as the test case for the SD reader/writer.

--- In r...@yahoogroups.com, Scott Henion wrote:
>
> Jon L wrote:
> > I want to run the example program fat_create.c
> >
> > and it says at the top:
> >
> > Requires the FAT filesystem module be installed.
> >
> > how do I do that?
> >
> >
>
> What version of DC? After version 9.5x or so, the FAT library is included.
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> | Scott G. Henion| shenion@... |
> | Consultant | Stone Mountain, GA |
> | SHDesigns http://www.shdesigns.org |
> ------------------------------------------
>
> today's fortune
> "I made the decision to name the Justice Department building after Robert
> Kennedy because he's deservant."
>
> George W. Bush
> November 20, 2001
> Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office about his decision to name the
> Justice Dept. building after former U.S. Attorney General, Robert Kennedy.
> Aired on CNN.
>

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Jon L wrote:
> Thanks,
>
> yea I just figured that out by searching around on the web and getting to:
>
> http://www.rabbit.com/support/downloads/modules/fat.shtml
>
> Its brand new, 10.56 DC with the new BL4s200 and I was a bit confused when I saw that there example package didn't include a FAT disk example.
>
> The board's documentation details a test program sdflash_inspect.c which takes the SD card and has it partitioned raw in 512 byte blocks (I think, the documentation switches between "pages"/"sectors"/and "blocks" I'm not sure yet if these three terms are interchangable or not) as best I can make out. Everything is a bit in pieces.
>
> So I've got two ways to proceed now, 1) the sdflash_inspect.c example with is raw 512 byte blocks, or the 2) fat_create.c example which seems to be at a much higher programming level. Fat.create.c should leave the mini sd card in a state that I should be able to pull the card and read it by a PC, so that is very attractive. I'm just a bit perplexed as to why the fact_create.c example is shown as the test case for the SD reader/writer.
>
>

The samples were written when the FAT library was needed to be purchased
separately. Now it is included, so they will work without the extra step.
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> > The samples were written when the FAT library was needed to be purchased
> separately. Now it is included, so they will work without the extra step.
> --
> ------------------------------------------
> | Scott G. Henion| shenion@... |
> | Consultant | Stone Mountain, GA |
> | SHDesigns http://www.shdesigns.org |
> ------------------------------------------
>
> today's fortune
> Be careful when you bite into your hamburger.
> -- Derek Bok
>
Got it. thanks. Can you think of any reason Rabbit is showing the sdflash_inspect.c example program and not the fat_create.c?

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On Nov 3, 2009, at 12:04 PM, Jon L wrote:
> Got it. thanks. Can you think of any reason Rabbit is showing the
> sdflash_inspect.c example program and not the fat_create.c?

The sdflash_inspect.c sample only works on boards with an SD Card
(RCM4300 series and the SBC based on the RCM4310). The fat_create.c
sample works on all boards that have FAT filesystem support -- for SD
Card, NAND flash, Atmel data flash and even a portion of the serial
boot flash on the BL4S100 series SBCs.

-Tom



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Got it thanks.   I got the example program fat_create.c to work on my single board computer, the BL4S200

So given that the example program works, how do I open the text file for append?  

fat_create.c opens the file as so:

  rc = fat_Open(
                 first_part,    // First partition pointer from fat_AutoMount()
                 "HELLO.TXT",    // Name of file.  Always an absolute path name.
                 FAT_FILE,        // Type of object, i.e. a file.
                 FAT_CREATE,    // Create the file if it does not exist.
                 &my_file,        // Fill in this structure with file details
                 &prealloc        // Number of bytes to allocate.
                );

which implies that if the file is already there, the file is should be in append mode. however successive runs of the program fat_create.c do not add additonal lines to the file "hello.txt."  Do I have to move the file pointer to the end of the file before a call to fat_write? ala:
fat_Seek (&my_file, -1, SEEK_END);

???

--- On Sun, 11/8/09, Tom Collins wrote:

From: Tom Collins
Subject: Re: [rabbit-semi] Re: Requires the FAT filesystem module be installed.
To: r...@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, November 8, 2009, 1:10 PM

On Nov 3, 2009, at 12:04 PM, Jon L wrote:Got it. thanks. Can you think of any reason Rabbit is showing the sdflash_inspect. c example program and not the fat_create.c?
The sdflash_inspect.c sample only works on boards with an SD Card (RCM4300 series and the SBC based on the RCM4310).  The fat_create.c sample works on all boards that have FAT filesystem support -- for SD Card, NAND flash, Atmel data flash and even a portion of the serial boot flash on the BL4S100 series SBCs.
-Tom



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answered my own question. the answer is yes you need to seek to the end of the file as so:

fat_Seek (&my_file, 0, SEEK_END);

note the 0 not -1.

--- On Mon, 11/9/09, Jonathan Leslie wrote:

From: Jonathan Leslie
Subject: Re: [rabbit-semi] Re: Requires the FAT filesystem module be installed.
To: r...@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, November 9, 2009, 2:24 PM

Got it thanks.   I got the example program fat_create.c to work on my single board computer, the BL4S200

So given that the example program works, how do I open the text file for append?  

fat_create.c opens the file as so:

  rc = fat_Open(
                 first_part,    // First partition pointer from fat_AutoMount()
                 "HELLO.TXT",    // Name of file.  Always an absolute path name.
                 FAT_FILE,        // Type of object, i.e. a
file.
                 FAT_CREATE,    // Create the file if it does not exist.
                 &my_file,        // Fill in this structure with file details
                 &prealloc        // Number of bytes to allocate.
                );

which implies that if the file is already there, the file is should be in append mode. however successive runs of the program fat_create.c do not add additonal lines to the file "hello.txt."  Do I have to move the file pointer to the end of the file before a call to fat_write? ala:
fat_Seek (&my_file, -1, SEEK_END);

???

--- On Sun, 11/8/09, Tom Collins wrote:

From: Tom Collins
Subject: Re: [rabbit-semi] Re: Requires the FAT filesystem module be installed.
To: r...@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, November 8, 2009, 1:10 PM

On Nov 3, 2009, at 12:04 PM, Jon L wrote:Got it. thanks. Can you think of any reason Rabbit is showing the sdflash_inspect. c example program and not the fat_create.c?
The sdflash_inspect.c sample only works on boards with an SD Card (RCM4300 series and the SBC based on the RCM4310).  The fat_create.c sample works on all boards that have FAT filesystem support -- for SD Card, NAND flash, Atmel data flash and even
a portion of the serial boot flash on the BL4S100 series SBCs.
-Tom



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