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Re: SD card boot sector location

2006-02-21 by Jan Szymanski

--- In lpc2000@yahoogroups.com, "theothervmax" <vmax@...> 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.
> Regards,
> Max
>

Hi Max,

Check your software and hardware. 
Maybe what you really send via SPI is not what you want to send.
Are you getting a good responses to all the init commands?

try Winhex on PC
http://www.x-ways.net/winhex/ 

Jan

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