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Re: [lpc2000] SD card boot sector location

2005-12-22 by Tom Walsh

theothervmax wrote:

>Hi all,
>I have an SD card formatted by means of a PC card reader. When I try to access the card via SPI, it seems that the boot sector's number is 249. All sectors below this location read as zeroes. The card's volume is 1 GB. The file system is FAT16.
>The question is: why 249 ? It must be described somewhere, but I failed to find anything in "ProdManualSDCardv1.9" and some other documents.
>  
>

You have to go out on the net and visit the many fine sites which have 
taken the time to fully explain the FAT filesystem.  This subject, is 
literally, older than the Internet..

Regards,

TomW


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Tom Walsh - WN3L - Embedded Systems Consultant
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