Hi: Hardware: STM32F207+S25FL128P Software:Freertos+FAT, Spansion FFS FTL Driver. Step 1: I write 20 bytes data into file /log/dat.bin, the print info as; [FileSystemFileWriteCmd:587]:Write File:/log/dat.bin data(len=20) OK! [slldWriteOp:4791]:sysaddr=0xde0020, leninbytes=32 [slldWriteOp:4791]:sysaddr=0xd73e00, leninbytes=512 [slldWriteOp:4791]:sysaddr=0xde0040, leninbytes=32 Write file(/log/dat.bin, testdata0inlogfile.) ok! I dump the file /log/dat.bin ,the print info as: DPET:dump /log/dat.bin DPET:[FileSystemFileDumpCmd:472]:File /log/dat.bin len=20!

0000: 74 65 73 74 64 61 74 61 30 69 6E 6C 6F 67 66 69 0100: 6C 65 2E 00

Step 2: I read data from flash directly, the print info as below: DPET:flashr 0xd73e00 1 20 DPET:FLASH READ(addr=0xd73e00, unit=1, length=0x14) OK!

74 65 73 74 64 61 74 61 30 69 6e 6c 6f 67 66 69 6c 65 2e 00

Step 3: reset the CPU

Step 4: I dump the file /log/dat.bin ,the print info as: DPET:dump /log/dat.bin DPET:[FileSystemFileDumpCmd:466]:File /log/dat.bin len=0! I get the file length through ff_filelength() function. I can not find the data in my file!

Step 5: I read the data from flash, the info as below: DPET:flashr 0xd73e00 1 20
DPET:FLASH READ(addr=0xd73e00, unit=1, length=0x14) OK!

74 65 73 74 64 61 74 61 30 69 6e 6c 6f 67 66 69
6c 65 2e 00.

My question is the data was writen to the flash sucessfully, but the FAT system can not read it. Why? I do not find a function like fflush() in linux. Please help me. Thank you.

Hi Lifei Yan,

Would it be possible that data has not been flushed to the flash at the moment the CPU gets a reset? What I do know is that FreeRTOS+FAT will always flush data to disk as soon as you call ff_fclose(). But I do not know about your driver for the Spansion? Can you point out where to find that driver?

Regards.

Hi Hein Tibosch, The data has been flushed to the flash at the moment the CPU gets a reset. In Step 5 : After reset, I read the data from flash, the info as below: DPET:flashr 0xd73e00 1 20 DPET:FLASH READ(addr=0xd73e00, unit=1, length=0x14) OK! 74 65 73 74 64 61 74 61 30 69 6e 6c 6f 67 66 69 6c 65 2e 00. wo can see that after reset, the data is in flash,but FAT can not get it.

We can apply Spansion driver through the link: http://www.cypress.com/forum/nor-flash/where-get-spansion-flash-file-system-and-block-driver

Regards.

Lifei Yan, I looked at the Cypress forum but didn't find a link to the driver. It looks like one has to apply for it. And I'm not going to do that.

I do not find a function like fflush() in linux.

Yes there is this function:

~~~ FFErrort FFFlushCache( FFIOManager_t *pxIOManager ) ~~~

Now if you want me to check the source code, you can send it privately to h [dot] tibosch [at] freertos [dot].org

Hi Hein Tibosch, Thank you very much. I made a mistake in my code. There are to methods to solve this problem . 1, In Spansion FTL configuration file ftlifex.h, the FTLRPBCACHE should be set to FALSE. 2, The function FTLFlushTableCache() and FTLFlushDataCache() should be called when FFFlushCache( FFIOManager_t pxIOManager ) is called.