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Reliability of FatFS module in the StarterWare

Sung-IL
Mastermind 30890 points

Dear Champs,

My customer questioned about reliability of FatFS module in the Starterware, Could you please let me know if you have any comments on this? Is there anyone who are using this FatFS module stably?

Or is there any recommended FatFS module can be used with Starterware?

Thanks and Best Regards,

SI.

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    Guru 26430 points

    I have never used fatfs beyond the demo in the StarterWare SD Card example. I do have concerns about the age of the fatfs used in the StarterWare example:

    R0.04b, May 05, 2007

    That was the version in AM335X StarterWare 02.00.01.01. I haven't checked for a newer StarterWare. The latest fatfs is:

    R0.10b, June 6, 2014

    Other forums posts have noted that old version does not support long file names. Quite a few fixed are noted in the release note between the two versions. No idea is the fixes impact reliability.

  • 0 in reply to Norman Wong
    Genius 5820 points

    Updating FatFS to latest version is not a big deal.

    I noticed some strange problems but digged not deeper into this so I can't say if this is caused by the updated version or something different (as an example: when enabling long filenames Ethernet PHY initialisation fails and code hands somewhere in CPSW code).