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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: TS7260 - Writing and reading from the SD card...
From: "tsao.terence" <>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:24:59 -0000

--- In  Jason Stahls <> wrote:
>
> tsao.terence wrote:
> >>> I will be using the TS7260 as a network gateway.  I will receive files 
> >>> via SPI interface and store them into a SD card at a predetermined 
> >>> schedule.
> >>>
> >>> Then I will grab data from SD card, and perform a SCP function to the 
> >>> school server.  How difficult is that?  Where can i find any SD card 
> >>> read/write sample code?
> >>>       
> >> It's already in the linux kernel already. You just write files. They 
> >> happen 
> >> to be on the sd card! You'll need to have the SD card etup with a suitable 
> >> file system and mount'ed.
> >>     
> > Can you explain to me what do you mean for getting the SD card set up with 
> > a suitable file system and mounted.
> > I will just be write raw data, and send raw data to the server.  What file 
> > system is that?
> 
> No offence intended but it sound like you need to pick up a few good 
> Linux administration and either some C programming or bash scripting 
> books and read up on the basics :)  What Jim is saying is all the 
> functionallity you need is already there in the OS/kernel.  You can 
> partition a sd card with fdisk, create a filesystem with mkfs and mount 
> it with mount, these procedures will be covered in any decent Linux 
> book.  To get data from a SPI interface you'll probably need to write 
> some code, that's where either a C programming book or bash scripting 
> book comes in (with some C helper programs to actually interface to the 
> SPI bus)
> 
> All in all, we can tell you how to do what you want, but it would mean 
> us basically doing the job for you (step by step) and take up a pile of 
> email messages :)  and in the end, odds are you wouldn't have learned a 
> thing.
> 
> -- 
> Jason Stahls
>
Hi Jason,

Thank you for the advice, do you know any good linux administration and bash 
scripting books?  I have done a lot of programming in C, the problem is i am 
fairly new to linux, but I do know my unix commands.

Thanks

Terence




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