SD Card issues

Hello

If you get to the point of testing the electronics and even after copying all your files to the supplied SD card it still will not respond on Pronterface properly per the wiki, dump the SD card and get a new or different one. I wasted a few hours with this issue thinking there was something wrong with the Duet board and started looking at the jumpers for power on the board and so on. The SD card worked fine on my PC but not in the machine.

This may save you some hours of head scratching and testing.

Dieter

Yes, lots of people have found the same thing. The latest firmware (Duet branch) has an increased start-up delay, which is supposed to fix at least some of the problems.

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Large delta printer [miscsolutions.wordpress.com], E3D tool changer, Robotdigg SCARA printer, Crane Quad and Ormerod

Disclosure: I design Duet electronics and work on RepRapFirmware, [duet3d.com].

Assuming the latest firmware version you refer to is 50 it's not helped me. I copied the SD Card files to the supplied SD card using the supplied SD adapter and it worked. Needed to edit the config.g file for network settings and it never worked again, even tried the SDCard groups official formatter. I was getting an error 1 reading the config file. I managed to find another uSD card and luckily this is working. However I made sure I had edited the network settings prior to copying the files.

Ok, I am in the middle of testing the printer and I have noticed that FAT32 isn't working on the supplied SD card when fitted to the printer, however FAT does, however it does work fine with both in the PC.
I even tried it 7 times and it was the same every time, so I am not sure if anyone else has tried formatting the SD card as FAT and then copied the files back onto it.

This is what was displayed in the Arduino Serial Monitor:
*** Formatted as FAT ***

RepRapFirmware is up and running.
serial: M503

; RepRapPro Ormerod
; Standard configuration G Codes
M111 S1; Debug on
M550 POrmerod; Set the machine's name
M551 Preprap; Set the password
M552 P192.168.1.14; Set the IP address
M553 P255.255.255.0; Set netmask
M554 P192.168.1.1; Set the gateway
M555 P2; Emulate Marlin USB output
M92 E420; Set extruder steps/mm
G21 ; Work in mm
G90 ; Absolute positioning
M83 ; Extrusions relative
M558 P1 ; Turn Z Probe on
G31 Z0.5 P500 ; Set Z probe height and threshold
M906 X800 Y800 Z800 E800 ; Motor currents (mA)
T0 ; Select extruder 0

ok
Class GCodes spinning.
Class Webserver spinning.
Class Move spinning.
Class Platform spinning.
Class Heat spinning.

*** Formatted as FAT32 ***

RepRapFirmware is up and running.
Can't open 0:/sys/config.g to read from.  Error code: 1
Configuration file not found

*** Formatted as exFAT ***

RepRapFirmware is up and running.
Can't open 0:/sys/config.g to read from.  Error code: 1
Configuration file not found

I am going to do some more playing about with the SD Card and I will get back and post my findings.

*** Update ***
OK, now its not working at all
Time for a firmware upgrade I think.

Before I try the latest firmware I will try a Full FAT format of the SD Card.

Paul

Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/06/2014 12:49AM by TMD_RS436.

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RS Ormerod No 436

Ok, I did the firmware upgrade due to I got the following when I sent M115

Error: invalid M Code: M115

It did the upgrade, verified it then reset, at that point the SD Card formatted to FAT (default settings) failed to work, so I powered down (removed USB Cable) waited 5 seconds and reconnected, SD Card still failed, powered down once more and removed SD Card, Then formatted the SD Card as FAT32 (default settings) inserted SD Card back into printer, powered up printer (via USB cable) and it worked with FAT32.

So I now get the following:

RepRapFirmware is up and running.
serial: M115
FIRMWARE_NAME:RepRapFirmware FIRMWARE_VERSION:0.50 ELECTRONICSuet DATE:2013-12-30
ok
serial: M503

; RepRapPro Ormerod
; Standard configuration G Codes
M111 S1; Debug on
M550 POrmerod; Set the machine's name
M551 Preprap; Set the password
M552 P192.168.1.14; Set the IP address
M553 P255.255.255.0; Set netmask
M554 P192.168.1.1; Set the gateway
M555 P2; Emulate Marlin USB output
M92 E420; Set extruder steps/mm
G21 ; Work in mm
G90 ; Absolute positioning
M83 ; Extrusions relative
M558 P1 ; Turn Z Probe on
G31 Z0.5 P500 ; Set Z probe height and threshold
M906 X800 Y800 Z800 E800 ; Motor currents (mA)
T0 ; Select extruder 0

ok
Class GCodes spinning.
Class Webserver spinning.
Class Move spinning.
Class Platform spinning.
Class Heat spinning.

Now to continue with the rest of the tests.

Paul

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RS Ormerod No 436