[N8VEM: 19372] Need an application to read and write SD cards

[Kip Koon]

Hi Guys,

I need a Windows 7 x64 application to read and write SD cards. I tried
sidewalk, but it does not run on my machine anymore. Maybe a Java update
rendered Sidewalk inoperative. Help?!? Thanks in advance to anyone who can
help.



Kip Koon

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[Nikolay Dimitrov]

Hi Kip,

Do you need it for reading/writing disk images, or more like a disk
hex-editor?

Regards,
Nikolay

[Kip Koon]

Hi guys,
Thanks for the responses and questions. I am trying to write the file fpgacubix.img to my SD card so I can boot CUBIX on my 6809 Multicomp board. The board boots into AG5AT DISK 6809 ROM Monitor and displays a prompt. I type "b" at the monitor prompt and "BOOTING SD CARD" displays, then ... nothing. I have verified the SD card image to make sure there is a directory starting at $0 which there is. August is helping me to get CUBIX up and running, but at this point I don't know how much of CUBIX is getting loaded. August is going to give me some things to check in memory. Hopefully I can find out why. Thanks again for your help so far. I appreciate it very much.

Kip Koon
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[Max Scane]

I use Rawrite-32. It seems to work OK. Note that to write to a physical
disk you have to run it as Administrator (right click and select "Run as
administrator").

Cheers!

Max

Post by Kip Koon
Hi guys,
Thanks for the responses and questions. I am trying to write the file
fpgacubix.img to my SD card so I can boot CUBIX on my 6809 Multicomp
board. The board boots into AG5AT DISK 6809 ROM Monitor and displays a
prompt. I type "b" at the monitor prompt and "BOOTING SD CARD" displays,
then ... nothing. I have verified the SD card image to make sure there is
a directory starting at $0 which there is. August is helping me to get
CUBIX up and running, but at this point I don't know how much of CUBIX is
getting loaded. August is going to give me some things to check in
memory. Hopefully I can find out why. Thanks again for your help so far.
I appreciate it very much.
Kip Koon
http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Kip_Koon
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[Kip Koon]

Hi Max,

I had forgotten about rewrite. Yes I found it and verified that what it wrote to the SD card was actually on the card by using the cygwin dd command. I dawned on me that since I am running cygwin that I also could use dd and it worked. I verified what dd wrote to the sd card was actually on the sd card by reading all 8GB back to a file. I went to solder while dd was dumping the sd card. August also told me how do a memory write and dump memory using his monitor he wrote and I was able to verify the ram is working by writing hex data into ram and dumping it back out again to the display. The data I entered was still in ram. So what have I done. I verified the ram is working. I know the monitor rom is running because I’m using it. I have verified the sd card contents at the very beginning of the card matches the data at the very beginning of fpgacubix.img. So, why can’t I get CUBIX up? Any further suggestions?



Kip Koon

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Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2015 10:54 PM
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I use Rawrite-32. It seems to work OK. Note that to write to a physical disk you have to run it as Administrator (right click and select "Run as administrator").



Cheers!



Max



On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 1:48 PM, Kip Koon <***@sc.rr.com> wrote:

Hi guys,
Thanks for the responses and questions. I am trying to write the file fpgacubix.img to my SD card so I can boot CUBIX on my 6809 Multicomp board. The board boots into AG5AT DISK 6809 ROM Monitor and displays a prompt. I type "b" at the monitor prompt and "BOOTING SD CARD" displays, then ... nothing. I have verified the SD card image to make sure there is a directory starting at $0 which there is. August is helping me to get CUBIX up and running, but at this point I don't know how much of CUBIX is getting loaded. August is going to give me some things to check in memory. Hopefully I can find out why. Thanks again for your help so far. I appreciate it very much.

Kip Koon
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http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Kip_Koon

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[Jim Strickland]

Linked from the Raspberry Pi site, where writing SD cards is a way of life:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/

Haven't tried it personally. I use macs and linux boxes, so dd works for me.

-JRS

Post by Kip Koon
Hi guys,
Thanks for the responses and questions. I am trying to write the file
fpgacubix.img to my SD card so I can boot CUBIX on my 6809 Multicomp board.
The board boots into AG5AT DISK 6809 ROM Monitor and displays a prompt. I
type "b" at the monitor prompt and "BOOTING SD CARD" displays, then ...
nothing. I have verified the SD card image to make sure there is a
directory starting at $0 which there is. August is helping me to get CUBIX
up and running, but at this point I don't know how much of CUBIX is getting
loaded. August is going to give me some things to check in memory.
Hopefully I can find out why. Thanks again for your help so far. I
appreciate it very much.
Kip Koon
http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Kip_Koon

[AG5AT]

Hi Folks,

I just did a test using an 8GB SD card like Kip is using. There is a line
in the sand at 2GB. Somewhere I remember Grant or someone saying SDHC do
not work.

Aug

Post by Kip Koon
Hi Guys,
I need a Windows 7 x64 application to read and write SD cards. I tried
sidewalk, but it does not run on my machine anymore. Maybe a Java update
rendered Sidewalk inoperative. Help?!? Thanks in advance to anyone who
can help.
Kip Koon
http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Kip_Koon

[John Coffman]

Aug,

There are major differences between SD & SDHC cards. SD cards address
bytes; SDHC cards address sectors. I have an old SD-USB adapter that
does not support SDHC cards. My newer adapters are good with both SD
and SDHC cards.

More likely, any incompatibility may well be FAT16 vs FAT32. SD cards
under 2Mb are most probably formatted with FAT16. SD cards 1Mb and
larger may be FAT32. I think all SDHC cards are FAT32.

The FATxx difference is likely the problem, since RomWBW and UNA both
test the card, and adapt to SD or SDHC as appropriate.

--John

Post by AG5AT
Hi Folks,
I just did a test using an 8GB SD card like Kip is using. There is a
line in the sand at 2GB. Somewhere I remember Grant or someone saying
SDHC do not work.
Aug
Hi Guys,
I need a Windows 7 x64 application to read and write SD cards. I
tried sidewalk, but it does not run on my machine anymore. Maybe
a Java update rendered Sidewalk inoperative. Help?!? Thanks in
advance to anyone who can help.
Kip Koon
http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Kip_Koon
<http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Kip_Koon>
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[Kip Koon]

Hi August,

Can CUBIX be made to understand 8GB SD cards like RomWBW and UNA?



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Hi Folks,

I just did a test using an 8GB SD card like Kip is using. There is a line in the sand at 2GB. Somewhere I remember Grant or someone saying SDHC do not work.

Aug


On Tuesday, March 17, 2015 at 7:15:35 PM UTC-5, computerdoc wrote:

Hi Guys,

I need a Windows 7 x64 application to read and write SD cards. I tried sidewalk, but it does not run on my machine anymore. Maybe a Java update rendered Sidewalk inoperative. Help?!? Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.



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[Max Scane]

No, the Multicomp has a limitation of 2GB for SD cards as it doesn't
support the SDHC card protocol.

The SD controller is written in VHDL and once you add the MMU, Interrupt
controller, RTC and second serial interface there are very few Logic
Elements left.

I would suggest that if you install it on a 2GB card it will probably work
fine.


Cheers!

Max

Post by Kip Koon
Hi August,
Can CUBIX be made to understand 8GB SD cards like RomWBW and UNA?
Kip Koon
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cards
Hi Folks,
I just did a test using an 8GB SD card like Kip is using. There is a line
in the sand at 2GB. Somewhere I remember Grant or someone saying SDHC do
not work.
Aug
Hi Guys,
I need a Windows 7 x64 application to read and write SD cards. I tried
sidewalk, but it does not run on my machine anymore. Maybe a Java update
rendered Sidewalk inoperative. Help?!? Thanks in advance to anyone who
can help.
Kip Koon
http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Kip_Koon
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[Kip Koon]

Hi Guys,

My Cubix is functional! Whoo-Hoo! I’m lovin’ this stuff! Now to play with my new toy!



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No, the Multicomp has a limitation of 2GB for SD cards as it doesn't support the SDHC card protocol.



The SD controller is written in VHDL and once you add the MMU, Interrupt controller, RTC and second serial interface there are very few Logic Elements left.



I would suggest that if you install it on a 2GB card it will probably work fine.





Cheers!



Max



On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 6:54 AM, Kip Koon <***@sc.rr.com> wrote:

Hi August,

Can CUBIX be made to understand 8GB SD cards like RomWBW and UNA?



Kip Koon

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Subject: [N8VEM: 19379] Re: Need an application to read and write SD cards



Hi Folks,

I just did a test using an 8GB SD card like Kip is using. There is a line in the sand at 2GB. Somewhere I remember Grant or someone saying SDHC do not work.

Aug


On Tuesday, March 17, 2015 at 7:15:35 PM UTC-5, computerdoc wrote:

Hi Guys,

I need a Windows 7 x64 application to read and write SD cards. I tried sidewalk, but it does not run on my machine anymore. Maybe a Java update rendered Sidewalk inoperative. Help?!? Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.



Kip Koon

***@sc.rr.com

http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Kip_Koon
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