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SD Card is not inserted - eamon - 2025-01-19

Hi, I just got my Tangara from Crowd Supply, and I'm stoked to have it. Unfortunately, when I power it on (with my card inserted), I get the following message:

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SD Card is not inserted or could not be opened.

Uh oh!

I'm using the filesystem and partioning scheme that the card shipped with (MBR, exFAT). I'm not a filesystem genius, but I'm seeing that the card has 34 MB of unallocated space at the beginning. Could that be causing the issue?

I also made sure I wasn't doing anything super silly, like inserting the card upside down (which seems to be impossible, thankfully). I was really hoping that I would just learn that exFAT isn't supported, but I'm seeing it listed in the documentation.


RE: SD Card is not inserted - redshift - 2025-01-19

(2025-01-19, 10:52 PM)eamon Wrote: I'm using the filesystem and partioning scheme that the card shipped with (MBR, exFAT). I'm not a filesystem genius, but I'm seeing that the card has 34 MB of unallocated space at the beginning. Could that be causing the issue?

MBR and exFAT should be fine.  I'd be surprised if the extra space had any effect.

My Tangara gets this message once in a while, and I have to remove and reinsert the SD card for it to be recognized.  Sometimes it takes a couple tries.

I'm not sure why it would be finicky.  My SD card cover is *very* tight and slightly off-center, so it's possible mine is hitting the plastic case and causing the SD card to be in a suboptimal position.  Maybe yours is similar - does the SD card cover press against the case when it's inserted, or get stuck behind the plastic?  It was suggested to me to flip the cover upside down on the card, which helped a little, but it's not perfect.


RE: SD Card is not inserted - jacqueline - 2025-01-20

Hi!

Two main questions:

1) What's the SD card? Brand + capacity at least, but if you've got a particular model # handy then it's helpful

2) Are you updated to the latest firmware release? v1.1.1 in particular included some big SD compatibility fixes.


RE: SD Card is not inserted - eamon - 2025-01-21

(2025-01-20, 12:15 AM)jacqueline Wrote: What's the SD card? Brand + capacity at least, but if you've got a particular model # handy then it's helpful

It's a 512 GB Samsung Pro Plus card. I've been trying to pull the model number but I can't find a command that gets it (e.g., it doesn't show up in usb-devices).

(2025-01-20, 12:15 AM)jacqueline Wrote: Are you updated to the latest firmware release?

Definitely not.

So... what version of rust do I need to use to be able to build tangara-cli? My computer probably does not have the right one (nor does it have the desktop companion's flatpak's dependencies).

Oh! Wait! I was able to flash with esptool.py and now!

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