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Altera_Forum
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13 years ago

SD Card read fails on NIOS2 DE2 Board

Hi guys, I am a university student trying to get the demonstration project working. The project that I am trying to get it to work is, DE2_SD_Card_Audio. I am able to synthesize and transfer th...
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iplayball27
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6 years ago

I also had this problem and I was able to get it fixed by using the SD Card Association's formatting tool. For some reason, the windows formatting DOES NOT WORK. Just put your SD card into your computer, open the program, and it will format it as a FAT16 that the DE2-115 board can recognize. Don't know why the windows formatting tool doesn't work, but it doesn't. As others have mentioned, make sure you're using a plain SD card (not SDHC or SDXC), 2GB maximum.

Link to the tool (Windows): https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter/eula_windows/index.html