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Ted J Kyle
Username: tkyle

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Posted on Tuesday, May 29, 2007 - 14:53:   

I'm evaluating WinHex (no license yet) and I have not figured out how to display the MBR of an SD card? I can "see" the FAT Boot record, the two FAT's, the Root directory table and the file data area using Winhex but I don't see the card's MBR?

I would also like to know if it is possible to program and or read each logical sector, one by one (including the MBR using) using your scripting language.

Does your application use windows SD card stack to program the flash or do you have your own driver (including the low level card commands) Primarily I'm looking for a way to avoid the thrashing of the FAT and Root Directory table (and lower level directory tables) seen when using the windows stack to add content to a flash card.
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Stefan Fleischmann
Username: admin

Registered: 1-2001
Posted on Tuesday, May 29, 2007 - 15:04:   

1) You would need to open the SD card as a physical medium in Tools | Open Disk, not as a logical drive letter.

2) Read and write each sectors, yes. If by programming you mean writing data, then yes.

3) Sorry, not sure what you mean by "stack" in this context. WinHex neither uses a stack to write to an SD card nor its own driver.

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