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rockybooth

Member Since 03 Nov 2013
Offline Last Active Mar 08 2021 06:06 PM
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#54047 Read problems from SD Card

Posted by rockybooth on 12 November 2013 - 06:52 PM

Hi All:

 

I have been having mixed success with SD.   I can usually write to the SD card, and read the contents in my PC.  However, when I execute the code below, it will ALWAYS crash during the read segment (ReadFile).  It always crashed with this being displayed in the debug window: A first chance exception of type 'System.IndexOutOfRangeException' occurred in System.IO.dll

Error in ReadFile; Exception was thrown: System.IndexOutOfRangeException
 
This may happen after 78 lines read, or after as many as 778 reads, or various numbers in between.

 

I am using the latest 4.2 firmware, Visual Studio 2012 Pro, Visual Basic, NetFramework 4.2.

I am using a SanDisk 128MB microSD card.

 

As this fails after different number of reads, perhaps the hardware is bad.  On this assumption I ordered another Netduino Plus 2 which I will try tonight. 

 

I see in the forums that there seem to be quite a bit of problems with the SD card.  If anyone has any suggestion on how to resolve this, please comment!  

 

Thanks .  

 

Imports System.netImports System.Net.SocketsImports System.IOImports System.TextImports System.ThreadingImports System.IO.PortsImports Microsoft.SPOTImports Microsoft.SPOT.HardwareImports Microsoft.SPOT.Net.NetworkInformationImports Microsoft.SPOT.IOImports SecretLabs.NETMF.HardwareImports SecretLabs.NETMF.Hardware.NetduinoImports Microsoft.VisualBasic.ConstantsNamespace CFcardUsage    Public Module Module1        Dim cardPresent As Boolean = True        Sub Main()            ' eject handler suggested by Stephan at http://forums.netduino.com/index.php?/topic/5076-detect-eject-sd-card-in-vbnet/            AddHandler SPOT.IO.RemovableMedia.Eject, AddressOf RemovableMedia_Eject            AddHandler Microsoft.SPOT.IO.RemovableMedia.Insert, AddressOf RemovableMedia_Insert            Debug.Print("Startup CF Card Usage")            ' Define path and filename            Dim strPath As String = "SD" & DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyyMM")            Dim strFileName As String = strPath & "" & DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyyMMdd") & ".log"            ' make sure disk is there and create directory if needed            Try                If Not File.Exists(strFileName) Then ' ** This shows a System.io.ioexception AND the following line executes, also throwing an exception                    If Not Directory.Exists(strPath) Then '** This also shows a System.IO.IOexception in debugger, and the following line executes                        Directory.CreateDirectory(strPath) ' ** the exception appears to be thrown her and goes to the catch                    End If                End If            Catch ex As Exception                Debug.Print("Exception thrown - " & ex.Message)                Debug.Print("Presumably there is no readable card present")                cardPresent = False            End Try            ' if no card is found, wait for one to be inserted            Do While True                If cardPresent Then Exit Do                Debug.Print("insert card")                Threading.Thread.Sleep(1000)            Loop            Debug.Print(strFileName)            ' open the streamwriter            Dim sw As StreamWriter = New StreamWriter(File.OpenWrite(strFileName))            sw.WriteLine("This is to write the files to the netduino card")            'lets learn how fast we can write to these cards            Dim StartTime As DateTime = DateTime.Now            Dim excp As Boolean = False            For i As Integer = 0 To 10000                Dim t As String = DateTime.Now.ToString                Dim EndTime As TimeSpan = DateTime.Now.Subtract(StartTime)                Try  ' if this fails, lets get the error, and stop writing so I can see if prior data is ok                    sw.Write("Memory usage " & Microsoft.SPOT.Debug.GC(False).ToString & "; Elapsed time " & EndTime.Seconds.ToString & "." & EndTime.Milliseconds.ToString)                    sw.WriteLine("; line number " & i.ToString & " at " & t & ", ms counter = " & DateTime.Now.Millisecond.ToString & ", tics= " & DateTime.Now.Ticks.ToString & ", machine time " & Hardware.Utility.GetMachineTime.Ticks.ToString)                Catch ex As Exception                    Debug.Print("Exception " & ex.Message & ", at i=" & i.ToString & ", ET= " & EndTime.ToString)                    ' exit the write loop                    Exit For                End Try                If i Mod 1000 = 0 Then Debug.Print(i.ToString)            Next            ' try everything possible to make sure the writes are complete to the card            sw.Flush()            sw.BaseStream.Flush()            sw.BaseStream.Close()            sw.Dispose()            ' if there was a write error, just exit, otherwise read back the contents            If Not excp Then ReadFile(strFileName)        End Sub        Sub ReadFile(filename As String)            ' this will read and display the contents of the card.            If File.Exists(filename) = False Then                Debug.Print("File does not exist")                Return            End If            Dim sr As StreamReader = New StreamReader(filename)            Dim s As String = ""            Do                Try                    s = sr.ReadLine() ' crashes with index out of range exception (system.io.dll) after some number of reads                Catch ex As Exception ' must use a try/catch or file will be deleted or not found. Does not seen to always work                    Debug.Print("Error in ReadFile; " & ex.Message)                    Exit Do                End Try                Debug.Print("Mem now: " & Microsoft.SPOT.Debug.GC(False).ToString & "; Recorded data: " & s)            Loop Until sr.EndOfStream            Debug.Print("Last line read was: " & s)            sr.Close()            sr.Dispose()        End Sub        Sub RemovableMedia_Eject(sender As Object, e As Microsoft.SPOT.IO.MediaEventArgs)            Debug.Print("Ejected")            cardPresent = False        End Sub        Sub RemovableMedia_Insert(sender As Object, e As Microsoft.SPOT.IO.MediaEventArgs)            Debug.Print("Inserted or present")            cardPresent = True        End Sub    End ModuleEnd Namespace

 




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